Francis Spufford, writer

Private Passions by BBC

Apr 5, 202653:02Music

Francis Spufford is an award-winning writer who loves to inhabit different worlds and vividly bring them to life: Golden Hill, which won the Costa First Novel Award, takes place in Manhattan in 1746, Light Perpetual begi...

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