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A Possible Life written by Sebastian Faulks performed by Lucy Briers, Rupert Degas and Christian Rodska, Sian Thomas and Samuel West on CD (Unabridged)

A Possible Life written by Sebastian Faulks performed by Lucy Briers, Rupert Degas and Christian Rodska, Sian Thomas and Samuel West on CD (Unabridged)£14.99  -  £19.99

Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son. A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends shivers through the skull.

Human Traces written by Sebastian Faulks performed by Samuel West on CD (Abridged)

Human Traces written by Sebastian Faulks performed by Samuel West on CD (Abridged)
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ISBN:  9781856869744
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Modern
Duration:  360 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Sebastian Faulks
Narrator 1:  Samuel West

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Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.
Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human.

As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. Their search is made urgent by the case of Jacques's brother Olivier, for whose severe illness no name has yet been found.

Thomas's sister Sonia becomes the pivotal figure in the volatile relationship between the two men, which threatens to explode with the arrival in their Austrian sanatorium of an enigmatic patient, Fräulein Katharina von A, whose illness epitomises all that divides them.

As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the novel rises to a climax in which the value of what it means to be alive seems to hang in the balance.

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