title: Fairoaks (novel)
text: # Fairoaks (novel)
  
  Fairoaks is a 1957 historical novel by the American writer Frank Yerby. It was one of his better critically received works of the 1950s, at a time when his reputation amongst reviewers had been declining despite his popularity with readers.
  
  ## Synopsis
  
  The novel spans four generations from 1780 to 1884 but focuses particularly on Guy Falks, a Southerner with ambitions and a desire for revenge that takes him to a variety of locations on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the vast plantation Fairoaks.
  
  