The title quote from the funeral service is clue to this book about the imagined future lives of children killed by a real bomb in 1944 London – a sort of elegy for what might have been. Bright Alec, sisters Jo and Val, unlikable Vernon and tormented Ben are visited at fifteen year intervals as their lives - and indeed South London itself - evolve. A lovingly imagined work of redemption; and as for the last chapter? Ahhhh.... An absolutely lovely book!
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 109 Summer 2023 ) |
