Sarah Perry's novel "Enlightenment" opens as the Hale–Bopp comet approaches Earth in 1997. Thomas Hart, who writes a local column for the Essex Chronicle in Britain, looks into the sky. It comforts me ...

WAITSFIELD, Vt. — Sarah Perry put a total solar eclipse in her new novel, “Enlightenment,” but — absurdly, in her opinion — had never seen one herself. So, this spring, she crossed the Atlantic from ...

Sarah Perry's novel, Enlightenment, recently received a Booker Prize nomination. It follows the relationship between two friends, with a 30 year age difference, as they confront the role of the church ...

SWEET NOTHINGS: Confessions of a Candy Lover. By Sarah Perry. Mariner Books. 304 pages. $29.99. Can Twizzlers people and Red Vines people marry? Can Milk Duds and Rolos devotees find détente? Or is it ...