Sarah Perry for Enlightenment

We are thrilled to welcome Sarah Perry for her Booker Prize-longlisted novel Enlightenment.

'The heavens, comets, faith, ghosts, love... This is a book of deep pleasures'
BOOKER JUDGES, 2024

'Sarah Perry just gets better and better'
INDEPENDENT

'A romance worthy of Emily Bronte'
WALL STREET JOURNAL

'One of contemporary fiction's brightest stars'
GLAMOUR

This is 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.

Sarah Perry is the internationally best-selling author of the novels Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award and has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Booker Prize, 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.