Enlightenment av Sarah Perry

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<p><b>A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends</b><br><br><b>¿Gorgeous... Ethereal¿</b> GUARDIAN<br><b>¿A book with cosmic reach''</b> FINANCIAL TIMES<br><b>¿A romance worthy of Emily Bront¿/b> WALL STREET JOURNAL<br><b>¿A genre-bending novel of ideas¿</b> TELEGRAPH<br><b>''Sarah Perry just gets better and better''</b> INDEPENDENT<br><br>Thomas 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 their desire for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of love.<br><br>Thomas falls for James Bower, who runs the local museum. Together they develop an obsession with the vanished nineteenth-century female astronomer Maria Veduva, said to haunt a nearby manor. Inspired by Maria, and the dawning realisation James may not reciprocate his feelings,