Light Perpetual

** Includes the first chapter from the hugely anticipated new novel from Francis Spufford,

Cahokia Jazz. ** 'Dazzling.'

The Times 'Exceptional.'

Guardian 'Brilliant.'

Observer 'Extraordinary.'

Financial Times 'A miracle.'

Wall Street Journal *Winner of the RSL Encore Award* *Longlisted for the Booker Prize*

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.