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  • Published: 14 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804944240
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

On Green Dolphin Street




FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIRDSONG

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Compelling . . . Faulks has become an international sensation' GUARDIAN
'Performs like an elegant melody' OBSERVER
'Tense and affecting . . . A modern epic' SPECTATOR

Life at the British Embassy in Washington in 1959 is awash with parties, martinis, jazz, and for Mary van der Linden, the kind of happiness she has always dreamt of. With her diplomat husband Charlie busy and the children off at boarding school, she feels listless until news reporter Frank Renzo enters their lives. And when Frank and Mary begin a torrid affair, their passion will force an impossible decision.

Set between Washington, New York and Moscow, On Green Dolphin Street, is a masterful exploration of Cold War chaos, and devastating love.

  • Published: 14 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804944240
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

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.

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Praise for On Green Dolphin Street

Faulks is a fine writer, and here his characters possess a depth and truth which make them live beyond the page

Kathryn Atkins, Bristol Magazine