Is Michel Faber really leaving the novel behind?

The author says The Book of Strange New Things will be his final novel, but Im yearning for a change of heart

What sad news, in so many ways. Michel Faber, for me one of the most interesting authors out there today, has said that his new novel, the mesmerising The Book of Strange New Things described as astonishing and deeply affecting by M John Harrison, is probably going to be his last.

In comments made this week in an event at Waterstones and reported by The Bookseller, Faber said: I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write. I think Ive reached the limit. The novel, he added, says goodbye to a lot of things: to Eva [Fabers wife of 26 years, who died this year of cancer], and that Prospero/Tempest thing of goodbye to novel-writing.

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