THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER London the week before Christmas 2007 Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work & too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk & reality TV; & a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these & countless other lives together in a daily loop With daring skill the novel pieces together the complex patterns & crossings of modern urban life & the group is forced one by one to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit Sweeping satirical Dickensian in scope A Week in December is a thrilling state of the nation novel from a master of literary fiction