Birdsong

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Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

1910. Amiens, Northern France. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in the French city to stay with the Azaire family. He falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle and the two enter a tempestuous love affair. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters. With his love for Isabelle forever engraved on his heart, Stephen volunteers to fight on the Western Front and enters the unimaginable dark world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. From award-winning writer Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong is an exceptionally moving and unforgettable portrait of the ruthlessness of war and the indestructability of love.

'Magnificent - deeply moving' Sunday Times

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Also available by Sebastian Faulks as part of the French trilogy series:
The Girl at the Lion d'Or
Charlotte Gray



© Sebastian Faulks 1993 (P) Penguin Audio 2005

Critics Review

  • Magnificent – deeply moving

    Sunday Times
  • With Birdsong Faulks has produced a mesmerizing story of love and war… This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again

    Sunday Express
  • Amazing… I have read it and re-read it and can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit

    Daily Mail
  • An overpowering and beautiful novel… Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel, just a great one

    New Yorker
  • Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable

    The Times

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