![]() ![]() ![]() Many of them will meet for dinner on the last day at the house of Lance Topping and his wife Sophie. During this week we follow the lives of a group of people in London, seven main ones and the various people they associate with. The book, as the title states, concerns a week in December, specifically the last week before Christmas 2007. His characters do generally have one thing in common – they are generally not happy with their lot and quite miserable, though – ta da! – the two that seem, at least for a while, as though they might become happy, are the two that fall in love during the course of the week in which this novel is set (Aaaaah!). ![]() Like Human Traces, Faulks has done his research (there is a fairly long list of acknowledgements) and his plot is not bad but, once again, it is all surface. ![]() However, this one got such good reviews and was hailed as the first British novel of the millennium that dealt effectively with issues unique to this millennium – Muslim terrorism in the UK, high paid foreign footballers, hedge funds, reality TV and the like – that I thought that I had better give Faulks another go. Home » England » Sebastian Faulks » A Week in December Sebastian Faulks: A Week in DecemberĪfter reading Human Traces, I felt that I would never want to reads another Faulks novel. ![]()
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