Book description
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track
the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring
off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer
recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too
much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist
theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality
TV; and a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these and
countless other lives together in a daily loop.
With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns
and crossings of modern urban life, and the group is forced, one by
one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Sweeping,
satirical, Dickensian in scope, A Week in December is a
thrilling state of the nation novel from a master of literary fiction.
Sebastian Faulks was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He
worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known
for the French trilogy,
The Girl at the Lion d'Or
,
Birdsong
and
Charlotte
Gray
(1989-1997) and is also the author of a triple biography,
The Fatal Englishman
(1996); a small book of literary parodies,
Pistache
(2006); and the novels
Human
Traces
(2005) and
Engleby
(2007). He lives in London with his wife and their three children.
