Enlightenment

From the author of The Essex Serpent comes an exploration of love, religion and the supernatural, as two friends become obsessed with the ghost of a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer. Thomas and Grace 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. A story of love and astronomy, told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.