Author | Sebastian Faulks |
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Publisher | Hutchinson |
Publication date | September 26, 2005 |
ISBN | 978-0-091-79455-2 |
Human Traces is a 2005 novel by British writer Sebastian Faulks,[1][2][3] best known for his novels Birdsong and Charlotte Gray. Human Traces took Faulks five years to write. It tells of two friends who set up a pioneering asylum in 19th-century Austria, in tandem with the evolution of psychiatry and the start of the First World War.