Birdsong

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"Powerful and moving bestselling fiction from one of today's greatest living writers. "Set before and during the Great War, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experience of the war itself."

"Sebastian Faulks is best known for his French trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong, and Charlotte Gray, all available in Vintage paperback, as are A Fool's Alphabet and The Fatal Englishman. He has also worked extensively as a journalist. Birdsong and Charlotte Gray are currently being made into feature films. He and his family live in London."

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 -- Simon Schama * New Yorker * Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable * The Times *