| Record Number |
901765 |
| ISBN |
9780571336494 (paperback) |
| Author |
Spufford, Francis, 1964- author. |
| Title |
Light perpetual / Francis Spufford. |
| Edition |
Paperback edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Faber & Faber, 2022. |
| ©2021 |
| Pagination etc. |
327 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Fiction |
| Fate and fatalism -- Fiction |
| London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1944 -- Fiction |
| London (England) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Historical fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F SPUF |
