A Possible Life
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  • Published: 4 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448192106
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

A Possible Life

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Paperback
9 Jul 2024
EBook
21 Mar 2024
EBook
4 Oct 2013
Audiobook
13 Sep 2012
Audio CD
15 Sep 2012
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Reissued in new series style to match Faulks's most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times bestseller in 2016

** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**

'A delight... A tightly written, moving and exciting' Daily Telegraph

Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire.

Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son.

A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends shivers through the skull.

Soldiers and lovers, parents and children, scientists and musicians risk their bodies and hearts in search of connection - some key to understanding what makes us the people we become.

Provocative and profound, Sebastian Faulks's novel journeys across continents and time to explore the chaos created by love, separation and missed opportunities. From the pain and drama of these highly particular lives emerges a mysterious consolation: the chance to feel your heart beat in someone else's life.

'It does what any good novel should - it unsettles, it moves, and it forces us to question who we are' Sunday Times
  • Published: 4 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448192106
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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About the author

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks’s books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.

portrait photo of Sebastian Faulks

Also by Sebastian Faulks

The Seventh Son
Snow Country
Paris Echo
War
Pistache Returns
Where My Heart Used to Beat
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
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Praise for A Possible Life

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

Faulks is a writer who gets better and better; he understands how to draw a reader in.

Daily Mail

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

The storytelling is crisp, the characters sympathetic and the philosophical themes thought-provoking

Mail on Sunday
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