Enlightenment

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends‘Gorgeous... Ethereal’ GUARDIAN‘A book wi ...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends‘Gorgeous... Ethereal’ GUARDIAN‘A book with cosmic reach'' FINANCIAL TIMES‘A romance worthy of Emily Brontë’ WALL STREET JOURNAL‘A genre-bending novel of ideas’ TELEGRAPH''Sarah Perry just gets better and better'' INDEPENDENTThomas and Grace are fellow worshippers at the Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits – torn between their commitment to religion and th