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...Faulks has always written young women well — think of Anne in The Girl at the Lion d’Or or the heroine of Charlotte Gray — but Adam is impressively drawn, flawed yet possessing a moral centre that contrasts...
...Sebastian Faulks made his name with three loosely connected novels set in France: The Girl at the Lion d’Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray....
...’s destruction of her dead sister’s letters, the second reworking the story of Charlotte Lucas, best friend of Lizzie Bennet in Pride and Prejudice....
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...It is true that Paris Echo not only revisits the doubt and dread of the German Occupation (familiar from Charlotte Gray) but also glances further back to the first world war trenches (Birdsong)....
...Where My Heart Used to Beat, by Sebastian Faulks, Hutchinson, RRP£20, 336 pages To be published in the US in January...
...Romantic Outlaws, by Charlotte Gordon, Hutchinson, RRP£25, Random House, RRP$30, 672 pages Ruth Scurr is the author of ‘John Aubrey: My Own Life’ (Chatto & Windus) Images: Bridgeman; Bridgeman and Russell-Cotes...
...Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, by Charlotte Gordon, Hutchinson, RRP£25 / Random House, RRP$30 Although the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter...
...The Fear Index, by Robert Harris, Hutchinson, RRP£18.99 Not a business book in the classical sense, Harris’s thriller is set at the sharp end of finance: inside the highly automated trading rooms of a Geneva-based...
...A Week in December By Sebastian Faulks Hutchinson £18.99, 352 pages FT Bookshop price: £15.19 The financial crisis and its fallout will spawn hundreds of bad novels....
...Charlotte Jones, head of accounting policy at Deutsche Bank, was coached for her third child....
...The Kindly Ones By Jonathan LittellTranslated by Charlotte Mandell Chatto & Windus £20, 992 pages American Littell caused a sensation when he won the Prix Goncourt with this epic narrated by an incestuous...
...The Kindly Ones By Jonathan LittellTranslated by Charlotte Mandell Chatto & Windus £20, 992 pages Littell, an American, wrote this brutal Holocaust novel in French, and was awarded the Prix Goncourt, the...
...The Kindly Ones By Jonathan LittellTranslated by Charlotte Mandell Chatto & Windus, £20 Littell, an American writer, wrote this brutal Holocaust novel in French and was awarded the Prix Goncourt....
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