- Published: 1 December 2010
- ISBN: 9781446412923
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Engleby
- Published: 1 December 2010
- ISBN: 9781446412923
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Engleby contains much of brilliance; Faulks turns out to be an unnervingly good ventriloquist - where did he learn to imitate the overblown modulations of an 18-year-old girl's diary? - and a born thriller writer
Mail on Sunday
Beautifully done... A portrait of one mind out of joint with its times, and eventually defeated by them... Witty, poignant, Engleby is as cold as a Fenland wind, as clever as a Cambridge don
The Times
Both repellent and magnetic, yet unforgettable. Faulks's most daring creation yet
Scotland on Sunday
Brilliant
Observer
Engleby himself is the most vivid personality Faulks has yet devised... engagingly lucid and disarmingly funny... This novel is a significant departure for Faulks, and the new terrain suits him well
Guardian
Evidence of Faulks's remarkable empathy and mastery of the novelist's art... Compelling, disturbing and significant... A remarkable achievement. What more can you ask for?
Allan Massie, Scotsman
His most brilliant novel yet
Daily Telegraph
Just as Birdsong is praised for its minute evocation of the horror of fighting a war, Engleby deserves praise for its close and believable depiction of a personality disorder
Spectator
Like Human Traces, Engleby is distinguished by a remarkable intellectual energy: a narrative verve, technical mastery of the possibilities of the novel form and vivid sense of the tragic contingency of human life... The combination of serious purpose and playful execution is intensely exhilarating
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
Very funny and, at the same time, deeply disturbing...Engleby the character is a tour-de-force, a person utterly without empathy who nevertheless evokes our own... A great read, a great novel
Daily Mail