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** 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 Osman
November 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.
Francis Spufford was born in 1964. He is the author of five celebrated books of non-fiction. The most recent, Unapologetic, has been translated into three languages; the one before, Red Plenty, into nine. He has been longlisted or shortlisted for prizes in science writing, historical writing, political writing, theological writing, and writing ‘evoking the spirit of place’. His first novel.…
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