Fires which burned brightly / Sebastian Faulks.

Faulks, Sebastian, author

London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2025.

400 pages ; 23 cm

In 'Fires Which Burned Brightly', Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood - 'cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range' - the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of the country's most acclaimed novelists. There are not one, but two daring escapes from boarding school; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; the writing of 'Birdsong' in his brother's house in 1992; and memorable trips across the channel to France. Politics, psychiatry and frustrated ventures into the world of entertainment are analysed with patience and rueful humour.

9781529154658 (hbk)

828.9209
828.9209 FAU
B FAU

English

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