A Fool's Alphabet

Editorial Reviews

"A conventionally-told tale in an unconventional narrative form" - Financial Times

"Faulks writes with great emotional authority...There are the same escapist pleasures, too: meals are described in rapt, mouthwatering detail, whitewashed villages and Mediterranean seascapes brought to such vivid life that you want to jump on the nearest aeroplane and see them for yourself." - Sunday Times

"Sebastian Faulks's third and most magnificent novel is a 'feel-good' experience from cover to cover. At a time when writers seem obliged to present the seedy or the wicked as reflections of the dirty, real world, we have here something that goes deeper than greed and explores our emotional rather than material being." - Daily Mail

"Elevated by some delicate prose, particularly in evocation of childhood and adolescence, A Fool's Alphabet is a poignant and highly readable novel that runs the gamut of experience from well, from A to Z." - Herald