A Week in December
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  • Published: 3 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9781407007748
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 37 min
  • Narrator: Dan Stevens

A Week in December

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26 Sep 2023
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14 Sep 2023
Audiobook
3 Sep 2009
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Powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction.

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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.
  • Published: 3 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9781407007748
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 37 min
  • Narrator: Dan Stevens
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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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Praise for A Week in December

Hilarious... The satire is so vicious that at times it's like reading a Tom Sharpe novel

Daily Telegraph

Richly entertaining and highly rewarding

Evening Standard

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

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