{"product_id":"light-perpetual","title":"Light Perpetual","description":"Product Description\n\n\nLonglisted for the Booker Prize 2021'Dazzling.' The Times'Exceptional.' Guardian'Brilliant.' Observer'Extraordinary.' Financial TimesNovember 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.\n\n\nReview\n\n\n'Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' - Nick Hornby\n\n'[Spufford's] writing crackles with energy and glee.' - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst\n\n\nReview\n\n\nDazzling ... [Spufford is] one of the finest prose stylists of his generation. If his stories grip, his sentences practically glow. -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst ―\nThe Times\n\nPowerful . heartbreaking . [a] boundlessly rich novel. -- James Walton ―\nDaily TelegraphA brilliant, attention-grabbing, capacious experiment with fiction. -- Kate Kellaway ―\nObserver\n\nSpufford is a tremendously varied and surprising writer ... With exceptional care [he] catches the voices and hopes of five not-dead working-class south Londoners, and the people who change and shape them. -- Alexandra Harris ―\nGuardian, Book of the Week\n\nMoving and effortlessly absorbing. -- Stephanie Cross ―\nDaily Mail\n\nThe novel's overarching feat is to resurrect with marvellous vitality not just its central five figures, but six transformative decades of London life. -- Peter Kemp ―\nSunday Times\n\n\nLight Perpetual's brilliance lies in the emotion and drama it wrings from the ordinary - but profoundly meaningful - experiences of its protagonists. -- Alex Preston ―\nFinancial Times\n\nA glorious act of literary resurrection. -- Claire Allfree ―\nEvening StandardThis novel simply excels in the stop-time rapture of noticing. -- Boyd Tonkin ―\nThe Arts Desk\n\nA tender, endlessly inventive novel. ―\nWaterstones, Best Fiction Books to Look Forward to in 2021Dazzling . Intimate, absorbing. -- Alice O'Keeffe ―\nThe Bookseller\n\nRadiant with hope and grace and courage . . . I loved it. -- Sarah Perry, A vivid and moving tour through 20th-century Britain. -- Laura Battle ―\nFT, Summer Books\n\nAn extraordinary novel . . . [Spufford is] such a beautiful writer, casually stunning in his language and perceptions . . . So engrossing . . .\nLight Perpetual is a miracle, not only of art but of encompossing empathy -- it becomes not only about the terribly brief lives of these fictional children, but of the finitude that bounds all the living and the dead. -- Maureen Corrigan ―\nWall Street Journal\n\n\nBook Description\n\n\nFrom the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting.\n\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\n\nLonglisted for the Booker Prize 2021 'Dazzling.' The Times 'Exceptional.' Guardian 'Brilliant.' Observer 'Extraordinary.' Financial Times 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.\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\nFrancis Spufford was born in 1964. He is the author of five celebrated books of non-fiction. The most recent,\nUnapologetic, has been translated into three languages; the one before,\nRed Plenty, into","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39655387627605,"sku":"9780571336487N","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/ecf0064d-2549-49fc-9a90-c019bd8f09b6.jpg?v=1638452990","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/light-perpetual","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}