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Francis Spufford’s ingenious and miraculously tender novel reimagines the lives of five London children killed in a rocket attack in World War Two. It is a story of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting, the ingenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, it is a sweeping and intimate celebration of the gift of life.
November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on to experience all the unimaginable changes of the 20th century. Because maybe there are always other futures. Other chances.
"Light Perpetual is the sort of novel that’s carried by its descriptions, passages that transform the ordinary into the transcendent and leave us marvelling." - Laura Miller, Slate.com, May 18 2021
Francis Spufford is the author of five highly praised works of non-fiction, most frequently described by reviewers as either ‘bizarre’ or ‘brilliant’, and usually as both.
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