- Published: 4 October 2013
- ISBN: 9781448192106
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
A Possible Life
- Published: 4 October 2013
- ISBN: 9781448192106
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
Both intriguing and unsettling… [Faulks’s] versatility as a writer is showcased in A Possible Life
Discover Your History
Most easily appreciated as a series of compelling short stories. Poignant, powerful and tender, they are lined by the pain and passion, hope and hardship, accident and design which make up the drama of an individual life
John Koski, Mail on Sunday
Both intriguing and unsettling… [Faulks’s] versatility as a writer is showcased in A Possible Life
Discover Your History
Most easily appreciated as a series of compelling short stories. Poignant, powerful and tender, they are lined by the pain and passion, hope and hardship, accident and design which make up the drama of an individual life
John Koski, Mail on Sunday
It does what any good novel should – it unsettles, it moves, and it forces us to question who we are
Sunday Times
A delight… A tightly written, moving and exciting
Daily Telegraph
Faulks is a writer who gets better and better; he understands how to draw a reader in.
Daily Mail
A Possible Life is more than the sum of its parts . . . the stories acquire power as resonances between them accrete. Only at the end do you realise you’ve been won over by their quiet, glinting virtuosity
The Times
Profound… Faulks evokes a deep compassion for all his troubled characters…exploring big ideas without compromising the human drama
Observer
Faulk’s most intriguing fictional offering... Moving...engaging...poignant
Independent on Sunday
The storytelling is crisp, the characters sympathetic and the philosophical themes thought-provoking
Mail on Sunday
The writing is masterfully controlled, without a word wasted. Avoiding excess emotion, Faulks evokes a deep compassion for all his troubled characters and by extension, for all of us who share their condition
Observer