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**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**

A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends

Gorgeous... Ethereal' GUARDIAN
A book with cosmic reach'' FINANCIAL TIMES
A romance worthy of Emily Brontë' WALL STREET JOURNAL
A genre-bending novel of ideas' TELEGRAPH
''Sarah Perry just gets better and better'' INDEPENDENT

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.

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 realisa

Enlightenment

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Publishing
      Published 1 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9781787335004
      978-1787335004
      ISBN-10 1787335003

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      **LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**

      A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends

      Gorgeous... Ethereal' GUARDIAN
      A book with cosmic reach'' FINANCIAL TIMES
      A romance worthy of Emily Brontë' WALL STREET JOURNAL
      A genre-bending novel of ideas' TELEGRAPH
      ''Sarah Perry just gets better and better'' INDEPENDENT

      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.

      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 realisa

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