Human Traces
First edition (publ. Hutchinson) | |
| Author | Sebastian Faulks |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
Publication date | September 26, 2005 |
| ISBN | 978-0-091-79455-2 |
Human Traces is a 2005 novel by British writer Sebastian Faulks, 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.