A Week in December

Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Dan Stevens
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 3 September 2009
Run Time 5 hours and 37 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues.

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Seven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a lovelorn barrister, a Polish footballer to a pickle magnate, they are defined by the virtual worlds of religious extremism, financial gambling, drugs and internet obsession they inhabit. But it is 2007, the Crash is coming, and all will face a terrible reckoning.

A Week in December is a dazzling and darkly comic state-of-the-nation novel.

'A thoughtful page-turner' THE TIMES
'Vast, well-plotted and gripping throughout' SPECTATOR
'Richly entertaining and highly rewarding' EVENING STANDARD

© Sebastian Faulks 2009 (P) Penguin Audio 2009

Critics Review

Richly entertaining and highly rewarding

Evening Standard

During times of momentous change, men of letters are driven to produce works that fictionalise the state of the nation, linking individuals with historic events. The 19th century gave us Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and Trollope's The Way We Live Now; the 21st has given us Sebastian Faulks's A Week in December

Sunday Times

Often edgily satirical, sometimes deeply affecting, A Week in December grasps its headline motifs with the strong and supple hands of a master

Independent

Hilarious... The satire is so vicious that at times it's like reading a Tom Sharpe novel

Daily Telegraph

This vast novel, well-plotted and gripping throughout, is the first that Sebastian Faulks has set in our time...the ambition and scope of the book are to be applauded. The conclusion is suitably nail-biting and, pleasingly, love triumphs. Sebastian Faulks has probably got another best-seller on his hands

Spectator

A zeitgeisty novel about the effects of greed, celebrity, the electronic age and the fragmentation of urban life. It's gripping stuff...sweeping and satirical, A Week in December is a thrilling state-of-the-nation novel

Cath Kidson Magazine

The novel is cleverly plotted and eminently readable

Sunday Times

Faulks never writes a hackneyed or lazy sentence, polishing each with care

Independent on Sunday

Page-turning portrait of noughties' London

Woman & Home

One can't mistake Faulk's ambition, and his take on the contemporary life is never less than readable

Sunday Herald

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