A Week in December, the latest novel by award-winning British author Sebastian Faulks, provides a sweeping panorama of contemporary London life over the course of one week before Christmas, as seen through the eyes of ten characters whose lives are intricately intertwined. Among them are a member of parliament with his ambitious wife, and a woman driver whose train a man jumped in front of, and an immigrant from Asia who made a fabulous fortune selling oriental spices, and his fanatic son who joined Islamic terrorists, and a heartless financier who is ready to ruin bank and deprive old people of their pensions, and a caustic literary critic, and a lawyer who is not always happy in love... The narrative, the scale of which critics compare to Dickens's, is filled with brilliant humor - in the best English traditions.