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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.
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
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 ---- Also available by Sebastian Faulks as part of the French trilogy series: The Girl at the Lion d'Or Charlotte Gray
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 *
This is a great love story -- Prue Leith * Daily Express *
One of the finest novels of the last forty years * Mail on Sunday *
This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it * Time Out *
So powerful is this recreated past that you long to call Birdsong perfect * The Times *
A powerful novel that is difficult to put down * Independent on Sunday *
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 *
This is a great love story -- Prue Leith * Daily Express *
One of the finest novels of the last forty years * Mail on Sunday *
This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it * Time Out *
So powerful is this recreated past that you long to call Birdsong perfect * The Times *
A powerful novel that is difficult to put down * Independent on Sunday *
Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781784700034 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784700037 |
| Title | Birdsong |
| Author | Sebastian Faulks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 528 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |