2024/112: Enlightenment — Sarah Perry

2024/112: Enlightenment — Sarah Perry

‘I supplement God with physics, and understand each as well as the other. Which is to say: not in the least! But I find it magnificent, knowledge piled on knowledge, and the matter never closed – it’s all no less strange and marvellous to me than the Resurrection, and it takes as much faith for me to believe it.’ [p. 191]

Set in Essex in the 1990s and later, in the town of Aldleigh (just up the road from the village of Aldwinter, now deserted, which was the setting of Perry's best-known novel, The Essex Serpent), this is the story of Thomas Hart, confirmed bachelor and columnist for the local Chronicle, and Grace Macauley, the pastor's daughter.( Read more... )