Light Perpetual: 'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph

Author: Francis Spufford (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 1944. It's a Saturday lunchtime on Bexford High Street. 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. Incinerated. Atomised. Among that crowd were five little children. What future did they lose? The only way to know is...Read more