Congratulations to Francis Spufford, whose book ‘Light Perpetual’ has been longlisted for the #2021BookerPrize The judges said: ‘Light Perpetual opens with a bang — a V2 rocket hits a Woolworths in South London in 1944, killing five children — and continues with an arresting counterfactual. What if they had lived? An absorbing chronicle of the five’s possible trajectories into old age, the novel made us reflect on the contingencies in every human life, and the purpose of fiction itself.’ #FinestFiction @FaberBooks