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Enlightenment
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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Summary
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Enlightenment 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 commitment to religion and their desire for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of romantic love.
Thomas falls for James Bower, who runs the local museum. Together they develop an obsession with the vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and whose identity might finally be revealed when a startling discovery is made. As Thomas fears a broken heart, he comes to find solace in astronomy: might it offer as much as earthly or even divine love? Meanwhile Grace meets Nathan, a fellow sixth former. They are drawn recklessly together, but quickly pulled apart, casting Grace into the wider world and far away from Thomas.
In time, the mysteries of Aldleigh are revealed, bringing Thomas and Grace back to each other and to a richer understanding of love, of the nature of the world and their place in it.
This ambitious novel about love and faith and science is Sarah Perry's finest work to date.
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- Amanda D.
- 06-06-24
The atmosphere created by the reader's voice
l loved it all..but then I love all Sarah Perry's novels.Very atmospheric and gripping in its telling.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-06-24
Well Worthwhile and a Spur to Thought
This is clearly an impressive novel and Perry’s best yet, a judgement based on having read them all. ‘Enlightenment’ is involving and complex, yet ideally suited to this audio-book version. Alex Jennings is excellent in steering a clear course through the novel and ensuring that listeners and carried along with an easy ability to differentiate the characters. For me the compelling character that Sarah Perry creates is Grace; an astonishing character that lives in the memory. I am two novels further on and Grace is still in my head. Yet there is more than this. Love and unrequited love, religion supportive and constraining, loneliness, and the question of whether simply being is all that we have expect in life. Sarah Perry has great skill in language and the ability to create a clear sense of space. For someone that has not really experienced the countryside and waters of Essex, this novel is certainly a magnet. In the end this is not a novel to zip through. Rewards come from considered listening and thinking over things. It will please many readers, and is well worth selecting.
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- Gemma Bradshaw
- 30-05-24
Just too drudging
This really felt like an endurance test rather than an enjoyable read. The voice wasn’t my favourite and that combined with dense writing and forgettable characters meant I finished out of obligation rather than desire.
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