Enlightenment a novel

Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. It is two romantic relationships that will rend their friendship. In the wake of this rupture, Thomas develops an obsession with a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and Grace flees Aldleigh entirely for London. Over the course of twenty years, by coincidence and design, Thomas and Grace will find their lives brought ba...