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.