Lucasta Miller

Lives unlived: Light Perpetual, by Francis Spufford, reviewed

Five working-class children are killed by a V2 in south London in 1944. But what might their destinies have been?

Devastation caused by a V2 attack on London in the second world war. Credit: Getty Images
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  • Light Perpetual

    Francis Spufford

    Faber, pp. 327, £16

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