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Light Perpetual
Book • 2021
Inspired by the 1944 V-2 bombing of Woolworths in New Cross that killed 168 people including 15 children, Francis Spufford creates fictional twins Jo and Val, and classmates Alec, Ben, and Vernon, letting them live on in an alternate timeline.
The story unfolds in 15-year intervals from 1949 to 2009, exploring their personal dramas amid post-war Britain's social, sexual, technological, and political transformations, from family life and careers to triumphs, struggles, and redemption.
The story unfolds in 15-year intervals from 1949 to 2009, exploring their personal dramas amid post-war Britain's social, sexual, technological, and political transformations, from family life and careers to triumphs, struggles, and redemption.
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Mentioned by Sam Brigger as Spufford's novel imagining lives if five real children had not died in the Blitz.
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The Blitz, romance, and time-traveling fascists
Mentioned by Sam Brigger as a previous novel imagining lives had five Blitz victims survived.
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