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Light Perpetual
'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph
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Light Perpetual
From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.
From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting.
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November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant.
Here are the futures they might have known, had they experienced the unimaginable changes of the twentieth century — futures that illuminate the miraculous in the everyday, and the preciousness of life itself.
‘My god he can write. One of the best opening chapters and closing chapters you'll ever read.’ - Richard Osman
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Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford has been praised for its imaginative narrative, blending historical fiction with a touch of speculative storytelling. Reviewers appreciate its exploration of life and potential through the lens of ordinary people influenced by a singular, tragic event. The book's writing style and character development receive commendations for their depth and emotional resonance.
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ISBN: 9780571336494
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 February 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 279g
Pages: 336
About the Author
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. His debut novel Golden Hill won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and lives near Cambridge.
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