![]() ![]() From this public world, Faulks enters masterfully into the private experiences of individual Londoners and weaves together their daily lives. Then it sinks down to the Circle Line on the Underground where a tube driver watches passengers piling out of the train day after day onto the platform. The opening of the novel sweeps over the public life of the city of London: the construction site of Europe's biggest urban shopping centre, Arsenal playing Chelsea at the Emirates stadium and walkers with their dogs in Victoria Park. Taking the lives of a group of London residents in the run up to Christmas, Faulks addresses issues in contemporary Britain from suicide bombing attempts to the financial crisis. A Week in December attempts a similar project for more recent times. Sebastian Faulks rose to prominence in the early nineties with his novel Birdsong (1993), an exploration of the First World War in which he interrogated history through the detailed and rich lives of his characters. ![]()
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