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A Fool's Alphabet
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  • Published: 27 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446454640
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 40 min
  • Narrator: Jamie Glover
  • RRP: $19.99

A Fool's Alphabet

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27 Jan 2011
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7 Oct 2023
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From the bestselling author of Birdsong and A Week in December – A Fool’s Alphabet is the story of one man’s life set against the backdrop of war-torn twentieth-century Europe.

The events of Pietro Russell's life are told in 26 chapters. From A-Z each chapter is set in a different place and reveals a fragment of his story. As his memories flicker back and forth through time in his search for a resolution to the conflicts of his life, his story gradually unfolds...
  • Published: 27 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446454640
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 40 min
  • Narrator: Jamie Glover
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.
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Praise for 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