Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray

by SebastianFaulks (Author)

Synopsis

In 1942, Charlotte Gray goes to Occupied France on a duel mission, to run a simple errand for a British special operations group and to find her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. It is in the town of Lavaurette that she finds friendship and experiences life under Nazi rule. From the author of BIRDSONG.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: New
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 24 Jan 2002

ISBN 10: 0099428342
ISBN 13: 9780099428343

Media Reviews
British reviewers' praise for Charlotte Gray:
It would take a mile-long essay to do justice to the many virtues of Sebastian Faulks's wonderful new novel. This riveting account of a young Scotswoman's odyssey through wartime London, and on into a perilous secret mission in Vichy France, deserves the highest praise. . . . Proustian cogitations, masterful narrative, and zestful pen portraits. A beautiful, near-masterpiece. --The Independent on Sunday
One of the most impressive novelists of his generation . . . who is growing in authority with every book.
--Sunday Telegraph
A worthy successor to Birdsong. It is hard to imagine anyone who enjoyed the last novel not finding great interest and pleasure in this one. In Charlotte, Faulks has created a wonderfully complex and engaging heroine, with whom it is hard not to fall a little in love. --Daily Express
Faulks has the rare gift of being popular and literary at the same time. Its page-turning quality in no way undermines the darkness that it describes. --Literary Review
Faulks is beyond doubt a master. --Financial Times

Praise for Birdsong:
Overpowering and beautiful . . . A great novel. --Simon Schama, The New Yorker
The ordinary superlatives do not suffice in this case. Birdsong moved me more profoundly than anything I've read in years. A deeply compassionate, utterly thrilling work by a master of the form. --Frank Conroy
Worthy in every way of its honors and success . . . so powerful as to be almost unbearable. --George Garrett, Los Angeles Times Book Review
A contemporary novel that . . . earns a place on the shelf with true literature. . . . Superb storytelling andcraftsmanship. --People

From the Hardcover edition.

Author Bio
With Charlotte Gray Sebastian Faulks concludes his French trilogy of novels, which began with The Girl at the Lion d'Or and Birdsong. After a period in France he and his family now live in London.