A Possible Life A Possible Life

A Possible Life

    • 3.7 • 23 Ratings
    • £4.99
    • £4.99

Publisher Description

** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**

'A delight... A tightly written, moving and exciting' Daily Telegraph

Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire.

Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son.

A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends shivers through the skull.

Soldiers and lovers, parents and children, scientists and musicians risk their bodies and hearts in search of connection - some key to understanding what makes us the people we become.

Provocative and profound, Sebastian Faulks's novel journeys across continents and time to explore the chaos created by love, separation and missed opportunities. From the pain and drama of these highly particular lives emerges a mysterious consolation: the chance to feel your heart beat in someone else's life.

'It does what any good novel should - it unsettles, it moves, and it forces us to question who we are' Sunday Times

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
4 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House
SIZE
3.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Super irons ,

Well written but pointless

A group of short stories with no connection to each other about characters who are born, live, experience trauma in there lives and survive to await inevitable death at some stage.
A bit like all of us really.
I was looking forward to the last story for enlightenment and to pull the whole thing together. It didn't.
JB

Valkyrie1968 ,

A possible life

The most boring book I have ever had the misfortune to listen to

Snoop Troop ,

Confused and still wondering

Where do I start? This book may be too deep for me, but I had no clue where it was going at any stage; or was that the point?

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