Light Perpetual

Francis Spufford

earliest edition we have, 2021 paperback

A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London. 1944: A crowd gathers at the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children. In an alt...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

Editions we hold

Luz perpetua paperback · 2022 · Catedral · 400 pages · 9788418800276
Light Perpetual edition · 2022 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 336 pages · 9780571336494
Light Perpetual paperback · 2022 · Scribner · 336 pages · 9781982174156
Light Perpetual edition · 2021 · Scribner · 336 pages · 9781982174163
Light Perpetual edition · 2021 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 368 pages · 9780571336487
Light Perpetual audiobook · 2021 · Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781797125756
Light Perpetual edition · 2021 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571336500
Light Perpetual hardcover · 2021 · Scribner · 336 pages · 9781982174149
Light Perpetual paperback · 9780571368730

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.