A Possible Life

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