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Book Recommendation: Enlightenment by Sarah Perry

Book Recommendation: Enlightenment by Sarah Perry

— Shilpa Sudhakar

Some books are hard to summarise. A novel about astronomy, religion, friendship and unrequited love, Enlightenment by Sarah Perry is all of these things. What will stay with me though is the atmosphere of the bleak Essex landscape, Perry’s beautiful and unhurried telling of a complex tale, and the character of the protagonist, Thomas Hart...