I'm opting for Charlotte Gray by Sebastian FaulksĬharlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks: 9780375704550 | PenguinRandomHouse. Please do share your thoughts - and your books! Please share a book that has stirred you. I'd be interested in your thoughts on this - how much fiction do you read? If you do, do you find that it teaches, albeit only a little at a time, about human nature? Many of John le Carré's spy thrillers, for example, contain startling glimpses into human nature. And, by the way, fiction doesn't need to be from the established canon of literature. (For more on the magic of reading, I recommend 'Proust and the Squid' by Maryanne Wolf.) If you're looking for a justification of reading fiction, this is it - that we emerge from it as better rounded human beings, with a stronger sense of understanding others.
The change may only be slight, but it's there, and it's something that happens pretty much every time we read fiction. Having seen the movie based on the novel I had expected a World War II thriller, as well as a different kind of love story. It engages me in trying to understand people, to wrestle with human dilemmas, and at the end, after I have travelled over distance and time without stirring from my chair, I am changed. Sebastian Faulks, 'Charlotte Gray' That line near the end of 'Charlotte Gray' (1998) helped bring into focus a Sebastian Faulks novel that had been a bit fuzzy to me from the beginning. It lets me see the world from someone else's view point. 'Learning at Speed' by Nelson Sivalingam made me think, but it didn't make me cry (fortunately, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intention).Ī work of fiction or poetry does something no non-fiction book can: it transports me. 'The Business of Venture Capital' is a good book, but it didn't stir my soul.
I have shelves of them and of other non-fiction books. Let's be clear - I'm not against business books. Vividly rendered, tremendously moving, and with a narrative sweep and power reminiscent of his novel Birdsong, Charlotte Gray confirms Sebastian Faulks as one of the finest novelists working today.I see lots of business book recommendations here. Here she will come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place during Europe’s darkest years, and will confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days. This time, the setting is blacked-out London and unoccupied France during World War II. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. Everyday lives in trying times By Sebastian Faulks Review by Patty Housman Like Birdsong, Sebastian Faulkss best-selling epic of love and war, Charlotte Gray plunges the reader into the darkest, most harrowing days of war. In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own.
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