Francis Spufford’s novel Light Perpetual is a miraculous achievement
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What if five victims of the V2 attack on a London Woolworths had survived? This vivid book follows their lives – and a changing Britain
30 January 2021 • 10:00am Instantly deprived of a future : a 1944 V2 rocket killed scores of people in a south London Woolworths
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Towards the end of Light Perpetual, Jo, one of the five main characters, looks back on her life as she nears 70 and realises how much of it has depended (as lives so often do) on pure chance. Had she not happened to be in certain places at certain times, it would all have been different.
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Hungerford Bookshop says #Stay-home-and-read
Trish Lee
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There are some fantastic new books to look forward to in 2021 and while the lockdown is in place it’s a great time to stay inside and read. We asked EMMA MILNE-WHITE from our award-winning local independent Hungerford Bookshop for the heads-up on fiction to look forward to.
LET’S start with a novel that’s getting a lot of press and radio attention. Mrs Death Misses Death, by the performance poet Salena Godden is published on January 21. Death, in this book, is a black working-class woman. Exhausted from spending eternity doing her job, she unburdens herself to Wolf, who writes down her life story. Highly imaginative and deeply profound, this novel promises to be a meditation on life, death and everything in between.