Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-27
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

The Daily Mail
`Faulks has ventured into dangerous territory - but his many fans will surely not be disappointed'

Sunday Herald
`the novel remains ever interesting'

Woman & Home
`compelling'

Customer Reviews

Dark as sin
Having read Sebastian Faulks before I was expecting and wasn't disappointed by the precise, descriptive prose. Engleby is written in the first person, and reads like an auto-biography from his early life in the 1950's through public school, Cambridge in the early 1970's and a career in journalism in London in the 1980's. While Engleby is an interlectual loner, I found him likeable, no doubt as the author intended. This is the real strength of the novel - as omissions in his memory are filled in and events unfold, Engleby is the same as ever he was but the reader's empathy with him is severely tested.

Humourous, clever, easy to read and dark as sin. Recommended.

Existential triumph
Thoroughly enjoyable. I agree with a previous reviewer that there are echoes of Camus (The Outsider) and Brett Easton Ellis but it is convincingly done and very well written. A welcome step up after the very disappointing Human Traces and it is often very funny.

Not worth it
An unlikeable character, tedious storyline which isn't even worth the read as the outcome is so predicatble. I was blown away by 'Birdsong' but this book was a big disappointment