{"product_id":"fires-which-burned-brightly","title":"Fires Which Burned Brightly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA new work of memoir from bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFires Which Burned Brightly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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 acclaimed novelists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are not one, but two daring escapes from boarding school; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; the writing of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBirdsong\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein his brother’s house in 1992; and memorable trips across the channel to France. Politics, psychiatry and frustrated ventures into the world of entertainment are analysed with patience and rueful humour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is driven by a desire ‘to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’ It ends with a tribute to Faulks’s parents and a sense of how his own generation was shaped by the disruptive power of war and its aftermath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSharply perceptive and alive with a generous wit,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFires Which Burned Brightly\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis a work of subtle yet profound intelligence and warmth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55537296605557,"sku":"9781529154658","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/d93b8060-6ee0-4463-b411-3f8968268eb3.jpg?v=1750865565","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/fires-which-burned-brightly","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}