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Light Perpetual :'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph
Light Perpetual :'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph
hardback
Published:
4 February, 2021
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Description
'Dazzling.' The Times
'Exceptional.' Guardian
'Brilliant.' Observer
'Extraordinary.' Financial Times
Winner of the Encore Award 2022.
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021.
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.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571336487 |
| ISBN10 | 0571336485 |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 571 g |
| Product Dimensions | 153 x 234 x 23 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | Main |
Media Reviews
'Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' - Nick Hornby
'[Spufford's] writing crackles with energy and glee.' - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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Author's Bio
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. Light Perpetual, his second novel, won the Encore Award in 2022. 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.