Enlightenment

"You know that feeling – when you are fascinated by someone all the more because you don’t fully understand them? That’s how I feel in English author Sarah Perry’s “presence.” Enlightenment is a tale of two friends, different generations but hailing from the same small Essex town and even smaller congregation. There’s a mystery involving a woman astronomer – but mainly there’s empathy for the complexities of people’s identities and belief systems, a sense of home and loads of gorgeous writing."