Light Perpetual :'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph
Light Perpetual :'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph
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3 February, 2022
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Pre-order Nonesuch, the new novel from Francis Spufford, now
**Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021**
**Winner of the RSL Encore Award**
From the author of Golden Hill
'My god he can write.' Richard Osman
'Glorious.' Evening Standard
'Exhilarating.' TLS
'Brilliant.' Observer
'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.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571336494 |
| ISBN10 | 0571336493 |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 279 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 20 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main |
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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.