Sebastian Faulks for Fires Which Burned Brightly

_A new work of memoir from bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks_
In _Fires Which Burned Brightly_, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood - 'cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range' - the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of the country's most acclaimed novelists.
There are not one, but two daring escapes from boarding school; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; the writing of _Birdsong_ in his brother's house in 1992; and memorable trips across the channel to France. Politics, psychiatry and frustrated ventures into the world of entertainment are analysed with patience and rueful humour.
The book is driven by a desire 'to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.' It ends with a tribute to Faulks's parents and a sense of how his own generation was shaped by the disruptive power of war and its aftermath.
SHARPLY PERCEPTIVE AND ALIVE WITH A GENEROUS WIT, _FIRES WHICH BURNED BRIGHTLY_ IS A WORK OF SUBTLE YET PROFOUND INTELLIGENCE AND WARMTH.
SEBASTIAN FAULKS has written nineteen books, of which _A Week in December_ and _The Fatal Englishman_ were number one in the _Sunday Times_ bestseller lists. He is best known for _Birdsong_, part of his French trilogy, and _Human Traces_, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage.
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