Sebastian Faulks with Simon Heffer - Farewell to Eden

Acclaimed and bestselling author Sebastian Faulks discusses the background to his latest book Farewell to Eden , published this September, with historian Simon Heffer.

It explores the disruptive power of war and the psychological trauma of post-war life.

Philip, an emotionally scarred soldier returns to England after a peace-keeping mission in Palestine in the final days of the British Mandate.

Some years later he meets Frances and hopes for more - but Philip is irrevocably changed by war, he still carries the secrets and scars of everything he has lived through which threaten the promise of a better life.

Faulks captures this embattled post-war Britain in a novel full of faith, suffering and humanity.Simon Heffer is a writer and historian specialising in the social history of Britain.

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