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Enlightenment
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  • Published: 2 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529927795
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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Enlightenment

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19 Aug 2025
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2 May 2024
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2 May 2024
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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

Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits – torn between their religion and their desire to explore the world. But their friendship is ruptured by the arrival of love.

Over the course of twenty years, Thomas and Grace will find their lives brought back into orbit as a devastating story of passion and scientific adventure unfolds and Aldleigh’s unique mysteries are revealed.
  • Published: 2 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529927795
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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About the author

Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Enlightenment, Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Death of an Ordinary Man and Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award. Enlightenment was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 and her other work has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Praise for Enlightenment

[A] genre-bending novel of ideas, ghosts and hidden histories. A richly layered epic… a heartfelt paean to the consolations of the sublime, where religion and science meet

Sunday Telegraph