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Hoping to find happiness: Paris Echo, by Sebastian Faulks, reviewed

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a serious novel must be in want of a theme. Paris Echo soon makes it clear that it has several. It’s about the shifting nature of history and the mysterious footprints of the past in the present. It’s also concerned with the myriad and biased interpretations that we place on past events.

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