A Fool's Alphabet

A conventionally-told tale in an unconventional narrative form

Financial Times

Faulks writes with great emotional authority... There are the same escapist pleasures, too: meals are described in rapt, mouthwatering detail, whitewashed villages and Mediterranean seascapes brought to such vivid life that you want to jump on the nearest aeroplane and see them for yourself

Sunday Times

Sebastian Faulks's third and most magnificent novel is a 'feel-good' experience from cover to cover

Daily Mail

Elevated by some delicate prose, particularly in evocation of childhood and adolescence, A Fool's Alphabet is a poignant and highly readable novel that runs the gamut of experience from well, from A to Z

Herald

The best novelist of his generation

Scotsman

An ambitious and beautifully crafted novel

The Time