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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.

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Main Author: Spufford, Francis, 1964- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2021.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
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Fate and fatalism > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > England > London > Fiction.
London (England) > History > Bombardment, 1940-1941 > Fiction.
London (England) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:323 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781982174149
1982174145
Author Notes:Francis Spufford began as the author of four highly praised books of nonfiction. His first book, I May Be Some Time , won the Writers Guild Award for Best Nonfiction Book, the Banff Mountain Book Prize, and a Somerset Maugham Award. It was followed by The Child That Books Built , Backroom Boys , and most recently, Unapologetic . But with Red Plenty , he switched to the novel. Golden Hill won multiple literary prizes on both sides of the Atlantic; Light Perpetual was longlisted for the Booker Prize; and Cahokia Jazz was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. In England, he is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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