Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks was born on 20 April 1953 and was educated at Wellington College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was the first literary editor of The Independent and became deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday before leaving in 1991 to concentrate on writing. He has been a columnist for The Guardian (1992-8) and the Evening Standard (1997-9). He continues to contribute articles and reviews to a number of newspapers and magazines. He wrote and presented the Channel 4 Television series 'Churchill's Secret Army', screened in 1999. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [Read more]

The Girl at the Lion D'Or
Vintage Books, 1989 (PhP 100.00)
With the same romantic sweep and vibrant historical detail that he brought to his bestsellers, "Birdsong" and "Charlotte Gray", Sebastian Faulks gives us a haunting novel of passion, courage and loss set in France between the wars. On a rainy night in the 1930s a young girl appears at the run-down Hotel du Lion d'Or in the seaside village of Janvilliers. She calls herself Anne Louvet; she is looking for work. And although her open-heartedness charms everyone but the inn's forbidding proprietress, it is clear that she has a secret. Soon Anne falls in love with Charles Hartmann, a married veteran of the Great War who harbors his own burden of tragedy. As it follows their torrential affair, "The Girl at the Lion d'Or" weaves an unbreakable spell of narrative, mood, and character that evokes French masters from Falubert to Renoir. This Vintage edition marks its first publication in the United States.