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Light Perpetual HB : from the author of Costa Award-winning Golden Hill

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ISBN: 9780571336487
AuthorSpufford, Francis (author)
Pub Date04/02/2021
BindingHardback
Pages336
CountryGBR
Dewey823.92
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Quick overview The Woolworths has a new delivery of aluminum saucepans, and a crowd has gathered to see the first new metal in a long time. Everything else has been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone.
€19.64

'Dazzling.' The Times
'Exceptional.' Guardian
'Brilliant.' Observer
'Extraordinary.' Financial Times

November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young 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 twentieth century.

Because maybe there are always other futures. Other chances.

From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, Light Perpetual is a story of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Ingenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, it is a sweeping and intimate celebration of the gift of life.

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'Dazzling.' The Times
'Exceptional.' Guardian
'Brilliant.' Observer
'Extraordinary.' Financial Times

November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young 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 twentieth century.

Because maybe there are always other futures. Other chances.

From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, Light Perpetual is a story of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Ingenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, it is a sweeping and intimate celebration of the gift of life.

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