Editorial: It’s no coincidence that novels, romcoms and video games are all embracing the idea that history can be replayed
It’s no coincidence that novels, romcoms and video games are all embracing the idea that history can be replayedPhotograph: Everett Collection/Rex FeaturePhotograph: Everett Collection/Rex Featurefor the best second novel of the year has an appropriately counterfactual relationship with history, going, as it did, to a writer – Francis Spufford – who had five well-received works of nonfiction behind him before he embarked on his second life in fiction.
Light Perpetual had already been longlisted for the Booker prize, so this is not a writer who has struggled in obscurity to complete that difficult follow-up. It is especially apt, however, given the subject of his winning novel, which imagines the potential afterlives of five children whose actual lives ended in November 1944 when a German V2 rocket struck south London.
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