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 ...
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 ...