Light Perpetual: 'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph - Francis Spufford (Paperback) 03-02-2022

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**Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021** ** From the author of Golden Hill ** 'My god he can write.' Richard Osman 'Glorious.' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating.' TLS 'Brilliant.' Obs erver 'Dazzling.' The Times 'Extraordinary.' Financial Times 'Superb.' Guardian 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. Show more