{"title":"Sarah Perry","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"enlightenment","title":"Enlightenment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn unforgettable story of love, faith and science,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEnlightenment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Sarah Perry’s finest novel to date\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A complete masterwork'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSARAH HALL, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Electric Michelangelo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEnlightenment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a gift'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSEÁN HEWITT, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAll Down Darkness Wide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Hart and Grace Macauley are fellow worshippers at the Bethesda 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas 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, and whose startling astronomical discoveries may never have been acknowledged. Inspired by Maria, and the dawning realisation James may not reciprocate his feelings, Thomas finds solace studying the night skies. Could astronomy offer as much wonder as divine or earthly love?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile Grace meets Nathan, a fellow sixth former who represents a different, wilder kind of life. 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It may very well change how you live' Rachel Clarke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I was spellbound' Kathryn Mannix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDeath of an Ordinary Man\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis an unforgettable account of this universal aspect of life. It is not a book about grief: it is a book about dying, and it is a book about family, and care and love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Perry's father-in-law David died in the autumn of 2022, only nine days after a cancer diagnosis. Until then he'd been a healthy and happy man: he loved stamp collecting, fish and chips, comic novels, his local church, and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAntiques Roadshow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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