Birdsong

"...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" Nigel Watts Time Out Set before and during the Great War, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and 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. '... So powerful is this recreated past that you long to call Bird song perfect' Sue Gee The Times '...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' Quentin Crewe Daily Mail 'An overpowering and beautiful novel... Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel, just a g reat one.' Simon Schama New Yorker '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' Andrew James Sunday Express