<p><b>**Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021**</b><br><b>**Winner of the RSL Encore Award**</b><b><br>** From the author of <i>Golden Hill </i>**</b><br><br>''My god he can write.'' <b>Richard Osman</b><br>¿Glorious.¿ <b>Evening Standard</b><br>¿Exhilarating.¿ <b>TLS</b><br>¿Brilliant.¿<b> Observer</b><br>¿Dazzling.¿ <b>The Times</b><br>¿Extraordinary.¿ <b>Financial Times</b><br>¿Superb.¿ <b>Guardian</b><br><br>November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. <br><br>Here are the futures they might have known, had they experienced the unimaginable changes of the twentieth century ¿ futures that illuminate the miraculous in the everyday, and the preciousness of life itself.</p>