Charlotte Gray: Book: Author

The Book: Learn more about the extraordinary novel by Sebastian Faulks.

The BOOK: AUTHOR

“It’s extremely hard work to write a book like Charlotte Gray. It takes an awful lot out of you. But it is utterly riveting and absorbing to do.” — Sebastian Faulks

AUTHOR INTERVIEW

Watch a video interview with author Sebastian Faulks.

Author Sebastian Faulks discusses the creative process behind Charlotte Gray.

PASSAGES FROM THE NOVEL

In this section of the site, you may also read three passages from the novel, Charlotte Gray:

BOOK EXCERPT: Charlotte Remembers France

Charlotte’s childhood memories of France provide insight into her willingness to undertake a dangerous mission on behalf of the war effort.

BOOK EXCERPT: Interview for Espionage

Charlotte meets with “Mr. Jackson” to discuss her possible participation in a covert operation behind enemy lines.

BOOK EXCERPT: Training Begins

In the New Forest, Charlotte begins training for the life of a secret agent.

IN PRAISE OF CHARLOTTE GRAY

Charlotte Gray, a novel by Sebastian Faulks.

“It would take a mile–long essay to do justice to the many virtues of Sebastian Faulks’s wonderful new novel. This riveting account of a young Scotswoman’s odyssey through wartime London, and on into a perilous secret mission in Vichy, France, deserves the highest praise.”
— The Independent on Sunday

For more about the author and his novel, kindly visit Sebastian Faulks’s site at Random House.

Excerpted from Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks. Copyright ©1999 by Sebastian Faulks. Excerpted by permission of Vintage, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.