Birdsong

by Sebastian Faulks
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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 experiences of the war itself.

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"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 uurge you to read it" - Time Out

"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

"So powerful is this recreated past that you long to call Birdsong perfect" - The 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

"An overpowering and beautiful novel... Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel, just a great one" - New Yorker

"A powerful novel that is difficult to put down" - Independent on Sunday

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