Light Perpetual - Francis Spufford, Faber & Faber

** From the author of Golden Hill **'Glorious.' Evening Standard'Exhilarating.' TLS'Brilliant.' Observer'Dazzling.' The Times'Extraordinary.' Financial Times'Superb.' Guardian'My god he can write. One of the best opening chapters and closing chapters you'll ever read.' Richard OsmanNovember 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.