Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781529927788
Published: May 2025
Imprint: Vintage
Page Extent: 400
Format: Paperback
RRP 275.00

Enlightenment

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Unlikely best friends Thomas and Grace are bound together by questions of faith, love and astronomy in this dazzling summer read from the #1 bestselling author.

READERS HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH ENLIGHTENMENT:
'Vibrates with wonder'

'I absolutely loved it'
'Full of magic'
'Exquisite...strange and wonderful and unpredictable'
'This book tore my heart apart then put it back together again'

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.

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About the Author

Sarah Perry

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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