A new, wise and warmly funny work of memoir from bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks
<p>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.</p><p>Sharply perceptive and alive with a generous wit, Fires Which Burned Brightly is a work of subtle yet profound intelligence and warmth.</p><p>
PRAISE FOR SEBASTIAN FAULKS
'Faulks writes with great emotional authority' SUNDAY TIMES
'A prodigiously talented writer' NEW YORK TIMES
'Faulks is beyond doubt a master' FINANCIAL TIMES
'The most impressive novelist of his generation' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH</p>
