A Possible Life, Sebastian Faulks
A Possible Life, Sebastian Faulks
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A Possible Life
A Novel in Five Parts

Author: Sebastian Faulks

Narrator: Samuel West, Christian Rodska, Lucy Briers, Sian Thomas, and Rupert Degas

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/11/2012

Synopsis

In Second World War Poland, a prisoner closes his eyes and pictures a sunlit cricket ground. Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away. In a 19th-century French village, an old servant understands the meaning of the Bible story her master is reading. In the Catskills, 1971, a girl steps out of a Chevy with a song that will send shivers through her listeners' skulls. A few years from now, in Italy, a scientist discovers links between time and the human brain, and her lover's novel and his life. Throughout five masterpieces of fiction, exquisitely drawn and unforgettable characters risk their bodies, hearts and minds in pursuit of the manna of human connection.

About Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks is the internationally bestselling author of several novels, including Charlotte Gray, which was made into a film starring Cate Blanchett, and the #1 international bestseller and classic Birdsong, which has sold more than 3 million copies and has been adapted for the stage, for television (starring Eddie Redmayne), and is now in development as a feature film. He lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill

A Possible Life is comprised of five stories – five lives – that are tied together not through the characters or plotting, but through time, space and connections. Had I reviewed after reading the first tale – set in 1938 and focused on Geoffrey Talbot – I may have very well given this book just 3 s......more

Goodreads review by jhldjfau

Is there such a thing as a soul? If not, what makes us so certain than the lives we lead and the identities we inhabit are even relevant? Do you ever wonder, for example, what would have happened if you'd taken that road, instead of this one? And is it possible to know which one, of all the dozens o......more

Goodreads review by Baba

Wow. Just wow. Five almost perfectly written short stories, all five of them being quite compelling (there's a little review of each of the first four stories in my reading updates for this book.). The best was saved for last as 'Part V - You Next Time' is essentially Daisy Jones & The Six with a mu......more

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