Enlightenment: A Novel
Written by Sarah Perry
Narrated by Alex Jennings
3/5
()
About this audiobook
“Like A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Enlightenment is a baroque, 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."" -- Telegraph
""Read it, then read it again. This is a book full of unexpected wonders."" -- Literary Review
From the author of The Essex Serpent, a dazzling novel 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 to explore the world beyond their small Baptist community.
It is two romantic relationships that will rend their friendship, and in the wake of this rupture, Thomas develops an obsession with a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and Grace flees Aldleigh entirely for London. Over the course of twenty years, by coincidence and design, Thomas and Grace will find their lives brought back into orbit as the mystery of the vanished astronomer unfolds into a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit. Thomas and Grace will ask themselves what it means to love and be loved, what is fixed and what is mutable, how much of our fate is predestined and written in the stars, and whether they can find their way back to each other.
A thrillingly ambitious novel of friendship, faith, and unrequited love, rich in symmetry and symbolism, Enlightenment is a shimmering wonder of a book and Sarah Perry’s finest work to date.
Sarah Perry
Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent, Melmoth, and After Me Comes the Flood. She lives in England.
More audiobooks from Sarah Perry
Melmoth: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5After Me Comes the Flood: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Enlightenment
Related audiobooks
In Universes: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Jane Austen Project: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Square of Sevens Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Half-Life of a Stolen Sister Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhost Girl, Banana: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The New Earth: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNeferura: The Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Here in Avalon Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Light at the End of the World Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Other Birds: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Absolution: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Twilight Garden: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Love Scribe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Magic All Around Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Orbital Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Strange Eventful History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Clear: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Painter's Daughters: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Book of Doors: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hestia Strikes a Match: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Once a Monster: A reimagining of the legend of the Minotaur Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In the Hour of Crows Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Trondheim Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dance Tree: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Beekeeper Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Weyward: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ink Blood Sister Scribe: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5At the Edge of the Woods Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Gothic For You
Starling House: A Reese's Book Club Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heaven’s Crooked Finger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers in the Attic: 40th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Heiress: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Villa: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daisy Darker: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Essex Serpent: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Glutton Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Moves the Dead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Hideous Progeny: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Petals on the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wife Upstairs: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Once Upon a River: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Witches of New York: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Catherine House: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Spite House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maddalena and the Dark: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leech Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Possession Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Heir to Blackwood Library Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dreadful Splendor: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Things in Jars: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pen Pal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Eve Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Every Single Secret: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gifts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5O Caledonia: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Enlightenment
1 rating0 reviews