Light Perpetual

November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, & five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, & 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 & the everlasting. Ingenious & profound, full of warmth & beauty, it is a sweeping & intimate celebration of the gift of life.

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Francis Spufford is the author of non-fiction books, most frequently described by reviewers as either ‘bizarre’ or ‘brilliant’, & usually as both. His debut Golden Hill won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, & was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award & the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year. His 2nd novel, Light Perpetual, was awarded the 2022 Encore Award & longlisted for the Booker Prize.