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Sebastian Charles Faulks, is an English novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray. He has also published novels with a contemporary setting, most recently A Week in December and Paris Echo, and a James Bond continuation novel, Devil May Care , as well as a continuation of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells . He was a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz The Write Stuff.



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✵ 20. April 1953  •  Other names Себастиан Фолкс, セバスチャン・フォークス
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Works

Engleby
Engleby
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Birdsong
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray
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Engleby
Engleby
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Birdsong
Birdsong
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Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray
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Sebastian Faulks: 13 quotes1 like

Famous Sebastian Faulks Quotes

“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”

Sebastian Faulks book Engleby

Source: Engleby

“The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.”

Sebastian Faulks book Birdsong

Source: Birdsong

“Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.”

Sebastian Faulks book Engleby

Source: Engleby

“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”

Sebastian Faulks book Engleby

Source: Engleby

“I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be”

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks Quotes

“Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.”

Sebastian Faulks book Engleby

Source: Engleby

“Something had been buried that was not yet dead.”

Sebastian Faulks book Birdsong

Source: Birdsong

“Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.”

Sebastian Faulks book Charlotte Gray

Source: Charlotte Gray

“One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.”

Sebastian Faulks book Engleby

Source: Engleby

“This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded”

Sebastian Faulks book Birdsong

Source: Birdsong

“You put your time where your priority is.”

Sebastian Faulks book Engleby

Source: Engleby

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