An Enlightening evening with Sarah Perry

Name: An Enlightening evening with Sarah Perry
Start: 2025-04-22T19:00:00+01:00
Location: 11-17 Castle Street, Norwich

Schedule

Tue, 22 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

11-17 Castle Street, Norwich | Norwich, EN

Join us at Waterstones Norwich for an enlightening evening with internationally bestselling author Sarah Perry to celebrate the paperback launch of Enlightenment.
Enlightenment is a story 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 for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of romantic love.
Thomas falls for James Bower, who runs the local museum. Together they develop an obsession with the vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and whose identity might finally be revealed when a startling discovery is made. As Thomas fears a broken heart, he comes to find solace in astronomy: might it offer as much as earthly or even divine love? Meanwhile Grace meets Nathan, a fellow sixth former. They are drawn recklessly together, but quickly pulled apart, casting Grace into the wider world and far away from Thomas.
In time, the mysteries of Aldleigh are revealed, bringing Thomas and Grace back to each other and to a richer understanding of love, of the nature of the world and their place in it.
Sarah will be interviewed by Chris Gribble, CE of The Forum, Norwich.