Book description
A spell-binding fantasy novel set in the Blitz, from the author of Golden Hill.
'What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and enormous heart.' Kaliane Bradley
'Everything that great literature should be.' Sarah Perry
'His Dark Materials meets the Blitz.' Observer
'An all encompassing masterpiece.' London Standard
'My god…
Why read it?
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Set during the London Blitz in the early years of World War II, this gripping speculative novel has it all: vivid characters, a page-turning plot, and many pages of fluid, dynamic, and consistently beautiful sentence-level prose.
Spufford is a gorgeous sentence-writer, his characters are fascinating, and page by page, the story is consistently immersive, subtle, and beautiful.
Like other British writers writing on the edge of the fantastic and the literary, like Susanna Clarke, David Mitchell, and Ian McEwan, Spufford is one of those writers whose work readers tend to seek out. Once you’ve read one of his books, you’ll…
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