Fires Which Burned Brightly

‘A wonderful portrait of an age, and of a writer’ RORY STEWART‘Utterly fascinating’ DAVID KYNASTON‘As charming and funny in schoolboy episodes as he is thought-provoking in the darker environs of ...

‘A wonderful portrait of an age, and of a writer’ RORY STEWART‘Utterly fascinating’ DAVID KYNASTON‘As charming and funny in schoolboy episodes as he is thought-provoking in the darker environs of mental health, Sebastian Faulks is always resonant, civilised and sane’ MARK KNOPFLER *** In Fires Which Burned Brightly, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood – ‘cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range’ – the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of the country’s most