A Week in December
- Author Sebastian Faulks
- Narrator Dan Stevens
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 5 hours and 37 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues.
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What to expect
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop.
With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life, and the group is forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Sweeping, satirical, Dickensian in scope, A Week in December is a thrilling state of the nation novel from a master of literary fiction.
Critics Review
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Richly entertaining and highly rewarding
Evening Standard -
During times of momentous change, men of letters are driven to produce works that fictionalise the state of the nation, linking individuals with historic events. The 19th century gave us Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend and Trollope’s The Way We Live Now; the 21st has given us Sebastian Faulks’s A Week in December
Sunday Times -
Often edgily satirical, sometimes deeply affecting, A Week in December grasps its headline motifs with the strong and supple hands of a master
Independent -
Hilarious… The satire is so vicious that at times it’s like reading a Tom Sharpe novel
Daily Telegraph -
This vast novel, well-plotted and gripping throughout, is the first that Sebastian Faulks has set in our time…the ambition and scope of the book are to be applauded. The conclusion is suitably nail-biting and, pleasingly, love triumphs. Sebastian Faulks has probably got another best-seller on his hands
Spectator
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