Human Traces
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  • Published: 5 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473597211
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download

Human Traces

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24 Sep 2024
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13 Jun 2024
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5 Aug 2021
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Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.

As young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa.

As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia.

Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.
  • Published: 5 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473597211
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
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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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Also by Sebastian Faulks

Snow Country
Paris Echo
Pistache Returns
The Seventh Son
Where My Heart Used to Beat
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Praise for Human Traces

This is a bold and remarkable work of imagination, particularly in its daring remastery of the 19th-century novel form and the sustained grace of its prose. To write so well for so many hundreds of pages is an amazing feat of intellectual athleticism

Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph

Shocking and enlightening...touching and affecting

Daily Mail

One of the most impressive novelists of his generation

Sunday Telegraph

His most ambitious novel yet... Love, loyalty, courage, compassion, goodness...these are the poles around which his always skilful storytelling revolves

Independent

He is the best novelist of his generation

Scotsman

Faulks is beyond doubt a master

Financial Times

Faulks has woven dozens of compelling voices together to produce an extraordinary novel of magnificent scope

Jonathan Ree, Evening Standard

An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope

Evening Standard

An epic of a novel...in some ways better than Birdsong, or at least more subtle and far ranging

Country Life

[S]tructurally intricate, yet intensely focused on the lives of individuals...Human Traces is replete with interesting ideas and contains some exceptionally fine topographic writing

Jane Stevenson, Observer
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