Hello,

This week brings nine new and notable books including Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford's second novel that has received much praise both from the media in the UK (where it was published in February) and in pre-publication reviews in the US.

Spufford won the Costa First Novel Award in 2017 for his debut Golden Hill, so the bar is set high for his sophomore novel and, based on the reviews, many feel that he has lived up to expectations. In the prologue, Spufford describes a real-life bombing that killed over 120 people in a London suburb in 1944, including his five fictional protagonists who are young children at the time. The remainder of the book imagines the lives of the five if they had lived, following them over the next 60 or so years, dropping in on them at 15-year intevals in a series of somewhat connected vignettes.

Very best,

Davina, BookBrowse Publisher