My favourite novel of all time because it’s not just the most moving First World War story, it also has a wonderful romance Kate Garraway, Daily Express So powerful is this recreated past that you long to call Birdsong perfect The TimesĪ powerful novel that is difficult to put down Independent 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. 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 MailĪn overpowering and beautiful novel. One of the finest novels of the last forty years Mail on SundayĪmazing. This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again Sunday ExpressĮngrossing, moving, and unforgettable The Times With Birdsong Faulks has produced a mesmerizing story of love and war. This is a great love story Prue Leith, Daily Express

'Magnificent - deeply moving' Sunday TimesĪlso available by Sebastian Faulks as part of the French trilogy series: From award-winning writer Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong is an exceptionally moving and unforgettable portrait of the ruthlessness of war and the indestructability of love. 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. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters. He falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle and the two enter a tempestuous love affair. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in the French city to stay with the Azaire family. The bestselling WWI classic now reissued in the new Faulks series styleīirdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day.ġ910.

Birdsong a novel of love and war