A Fool's Alphabet
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  • Published: 7 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804944363
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $29.99

A Fool's Alphabet

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27 Jan 2011
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7 Oct 2023
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FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIRDSONG

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Ambitious and beautifully crafted' THE TIMES
'Faulks writes with great emotional authority' SUNDAY TIMES

Amidst the letters of the alphabet, a life reveals itself. Flashing backwards and forwards through time, we meet Pietro Russell. As a photographer in Sri Lanka, a schoolboy in Fulham and even before he was born to his wounded English father and young Italian mother. The extraordinary moments of Pietro's life are navigated with unique imagination, giving the reader a chance to view a life from a new and moving vantage point.

A Fool's Alphabet is a novel of true invention from a master storyteller that sees life in all of its compelling, poignant glory.
  • Published: 7 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804944363
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $29.99
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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.

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