A Possible Life

Profound . . . Faulks evokes a deep compassionOBSERVER
Does what a good novel should - it unsettles, it moves, and it forces us to question who we areSUNDAY TIMES
A delight . . . moving and excitingDAILY TELEGRAPH

Five lives overlap across two centuries. School teacher Geoffrey’s war takes him to the brink of sanity; Billy’s fortitude lifts him from the Victorian slums in London; Elena and Jeanne interrogate the notion of the soul, from opposite points of view, a century apart. And for Anya, a young American singer-songwriter, only her producer Jack can understand the depths of their bond as art and life collide.

In a symphony of fiction, A Possible Life defies the boundaries of the novel, to explore the deepest questions of how we are connected to one another.

A Possible Life is more than the sum of its parts . . . the stories acquire power as resonances between them accrete. Only at the end do you realise youve been won over by their quiet, glinting virtuosity THE TIMES