- Published: 9 July 2024
- ISBN: 9781804944349
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $22.99
Paris Echo

















- Published: 9 July 2024
- ISBN: 9781804944349
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $22.99
[An] exquisite book... a deeply affecting, wholly unsolemn treatment of some of the 20th century's darkest moments.
Daily Mail
Superb... weaves winningly between the present and the second world war, between Tangiers and Paris.
Alex Preston, Observer
Master storytelling... [An] intriguing and moving story that shows how the future is shaped by the past.
Women & Home
Faulks excels at creating well-rounded characters.
Good Housekeeping
Paris Echo doesn’t disappoint… Faulks is doing what he does best, marrying careful historical research with a good ear for dialogue
Melissa Katsoulis, The Times
An intriguing guide to the many layers of Parisien life.
Anthony Gardner, Mail on Sunday
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking with memorable characters and a profound sense of the past in the present
Hannah Beckerman, S Magazine, Sunday Express
The prowess of his storytelling makes him a graceful guide through "the great world of the past"... Cunningly crafted, Faulks's fictional bridge between the French past and present has its sentimental side.
Financial Times
Paris Echo is an enjoyable and highly readable novel. Faulks has an easy-going style and he draws you seemingly without effort into the world he creates. He has a knowing humour too…In part the novel is a love letter to Paris, but it is also the latest product of Faulk’s long-standing and fascinating engagement with the devastating events of the 20th century.
Literary Review
There is humour and humanity in this bold, perceptive novel.
Daily Express
Here is Paris in all its beauty and squalor, its blood-stained history and its ability to instil in its lover a sense of the true sweetness of life. So this intelligent, moving, often disturbing novel is also really a love letter to Paris and indeed to France.
The Scotsman
Immersive
The Spectator
There is much to learn from Paris Echo about the city’s complex identity, and about the way we view the past.
Sunday Times
A lovely novel by a writer who lives and breathes France
Saga Magazine
This intelligent, moving, often disturbing novel is also really a love letter to Paris – and, indeed, to France
i paper
‘[Paris Echo is] brimming with Faulks’s deep affection for Paris. His outsider’s interest in quirky street names and quaint corners transports his readers there too. And in the end, the book is powered by his ambition to evoke that place, its ghostliness, those spectres of history, lurking around every beautiful avenue
Guardian
Faulks is a fine descriptive writer and evokes Paris splendidly
Daily Telegraph
A brilliantly plotted and occasionally hallucinatory novel, in which the author's genius for literary ventriloquism is shown off to startling effect.
New Statesman
Another terrific, intelligent read from Faulks
Reader's Digest