A review by mrs_bonaventure
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks

2.0

Struggled with the first third, tolerated the middle third and by the last, cared about some characters enough to finish it. Some good comedy towards the end although the whole thing read as a bit of a caricature or satire; no bad thing but it then made occasional pathos seem like sentimentality and big themes seem overblown. I suspect it's just a bit of fun.
Hard to read after John Lanchester's Capital which much more resembled a modern go at Thackeray or Trollope.