Francis Spufford’s New Novel Imagines Lives That Might Have Been

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“Light Perpetual,” the English writer’s latest book, was inspired by the bombing of a London Woolworth’s in 1944 in which 168 people died. What if five kids had survived the attack? the novel asks. What would their lives have been like?

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/books/review/light-perpetual-francis-spufford.html