Faulks’s most vivid character is the odious John Veals, a hedge-fund manager, who relishes all the money that he makes and the power that he quietly exerts… Veals is brilliantly insidious… A thoughtful page-turner … The handsome sunset is heavily, and rightly, weighed down by dark clouds.
The Times

Faulks’s most vivid character is the odious John Veals, a hedge-fund manager, who relishes all the money that he makes and the power that he quietly exerts… Veals is brilliantly insidious… A thoughtful page-turner … The handsome sunset is heavily, and rightly, weighed down by dark clouds.
The Times

During times of momentous change, men of letters are driven to produce works that fictionalise the state of the nation, linking individuals with historic events. The 19th century gave us Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend and Trollope’s The Way We Live Now; the 21st has given us Sebastian Faulks’s A Week in December
Sunday Times

During times of momentous change, men of letters are driven to produce works that fictionalise the state of the nation, linking individuals with historic events. The 19th century gave us Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend and Trollope’s The Way We Live Now; the 21st has given us Sebastian Faulks’s A Week in December
Sunday Times

This vast novel, well-plotted and gripping throughout, is the first that Sebastian Faulks has set in our time… the ambition and scope of the book are to be applauded. The conclusion is suitably nail-biting and, pleasingly, love triumphs. Sebastian Faulks has probably got another best-seller on his hands.
Spectator

This vast novel, well-plotted and gripping throughout, is the first that Sebastian Faulks has set in our time… the ambition and scope of the book are to be applauded. The conclusion is suitably nail-biting and, pleasingly, love triumphs. Sebastian Faulks has probably got another best-seller on his hands.
Spectator

A portrayal of modern London that is both richly entertaining and highly rewarding. Faulks has come as close as anyone to completing the jigsaw that is this crazy, fascinating city of ours.
Evening Standard

A portrayal of modern London that is both richly entertaining and highly rewarding. Faulks has come as close as anyone to completing the jigsaw that is this crazy, fascinating city of ours.
Evening Standard

A vicious satire on modern life
Daily Telegraph

A vicious satire on modern life
Daily Telegraph

a zeitgeisty novel about the effects of greed, celebrity, the electronic age and the fragmentation of urban life. It’s gripping stuff […] Sweeping and satirical, A Week in December is a thrilling state-of-the-nation novel.
Elizabeth Dare, Cath Kidson Magazine

a zeitgeisty novel about the effects of greed, celebrity, the electronic age and the fragmentation of urban life. It’s gripping stuff […] Sweeping and satirical, A Week in December is a thrilling state-of-the-nation novel.
Elizabeth Dare, Cath Kidson Magazine

The novel is cleverly plotted and eminently readable…
Peter Parker, Sunday Times

The novel is cleverly plotted and eminently readable…
Peter Parker, Sunday Times

Faulks never writes a hackneyed or lazy sentence, polishing each with care
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday

Faulks never writes a hackneyed or lazy sentence, polishing each with care
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday

Page-turning portrait of noughties’ London.
Woman & Home

Page-turning portrait of noughties’ London.
Woman & Home

One can’t mistake Faulk’s ambition, and his take on the contemporary life is never less than readable
Sunday Herald

One can’t mistake Faulk’s ambition, and his take on the contemporary life is never less than readable
Sunday Herald

This intriguing book, shaped by modern manners and foibles as much as actions and outcomes, takes the reader on a whistle-stop tour of society.
Waterstone's Book Quarterly

This intriguing book, shaped by modern manners and foibles as much as actions and outcomes, takes the reader on a whistle-stop tour of society.
Waterstone's Book Quarterly

The author cleverly brings together the two things that are troubling the nation most – the collapse of the financial system and the threat of terrorism. The book is compelling.
Nicola Horlick, Evening Standard, Christmas round up

The author cleverly brings together the two things that are troubling the nation most – the collapse of the financial system and the threat of terrorism. The book is compelling.
Nicola Horlick, Evening Standard, Christmas round up

Cherith Fuller 19 January 2012

This highly readable state-of-the-nation book is cleverly constructed, jumping from character to character but maintaining the narrative thread. Each character has his own story, but they interweave. Faulks keeps control of the story and of the characters, and throws most of the ingredients of our current malaise into the mix: the ruthless opportunism of the financial sector, the cruelty of reality TV, Islamic terrorism, pornography, the obsession with celebrity and money and so on. Occasionally the novel stopped me in my tracks by the clarity and incisiveness of its insight. In twenty years' time people will read this novel and remember that this is how it was to live in London in 2010.