Hear from one of Britain’s best-loved authors, Sebastian Faulks, as he takes us on a journey through his life and writing career.
In his memoir, the author shares stories of his post-war rural childhood; not one, but two daring escapes from boarding school; the booze-sodden heyday of his time as a journalist on Fleet Street; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; and the writing of the award-winning Birdsong in his brother’s house in 1992.
There will be politics, psychiatry and frustrated ventures into the world of entertainment and all analysed with his signature patience and rueful humour. Sharply perceptive and alive with a generous wit, Fires Which Burned Brightly is a work of subtle yet profound intelligence and warmth. Faulks talks to writer and critic Erica Wagner.
