Light Perpetual : : a Novel

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Call Number: Fiction / Spufford, Francis, Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Spufford, Francis
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Spufford, Francis	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Spufford, Francis	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Spufford, Francis	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Spufford, Francis	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Spufford, Francis	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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 alternative reel of time, the life arcs of these five souls are followed through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of the bustling immensity of twentieth-century London. Through decades of social, sexual, and technological transformation, as bus conductors and landlords, as swindlers and teachers, patients and inmates, we witness their disasters, second chances, and redemption. -- adapted from jacket

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Made me cry submitted by tuttlium on July 8, 2023, 7:33am I was immediately hooked on this book. It may have been about fake people, but it felt so real. You follow five children's lives through all their trials and tribulations, revisiting the repeatedly at longer and longer intervals, similar to how time feels to speed up as you age. This book can't help but make you reflect on your own life. But for me, it also helped me see and love the humanity on all the characters.