'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. 'One of the finest novels of the last forty years' * Mail on Sunday *

'This is a great love story' - Prue Leith * Daily Express * 'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' * The Times * THE BOULEVARD DUCANGE was a broad, quiet street that marked the eastern ank of the city of Amiens. Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel, just a great one' - Simon Schama * New Yorker * 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 * One senior reviewer found it all just too much, while a youngster told his readers that the love scenes. This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again' * Sunday Express * Rachel Wagstaffs adaptation of Sebastian Faulks bestselling novel Birdsong was staged at the Comedy Theatre, West End, 2010-11, directed by Sir Trevor. When Birdsong came out in 1993 it was generally, though not universally, well received. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First.

'With Birdsong Faulks has produced a mesmerizing story of love and war. It is taken from Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, first published in 1993, a novel which tells the story of a British man called Stephen. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks: 9780679776819 : Books. Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present.Īs the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man’s Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient.Ĭrafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.'Magnificent - deeply moving' * Sunday Times * This is a beautiful and moving book and it certainly won’t be the last one by Faulks that I will read. It triggered many strong emotions all together that at the end of the book my eyes were wet. The writing style was so descriptive that I felt like I was watching a film. The part about war showed the horrors in detail and in a realistic manner, so much so that I could identify with the human despair. The part about love was very sensual and intense.

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