Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
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Pub Date 23 Feb 2010 | Archive Date 11 Sep 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day.
**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
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Also available by Sebastian Faulks as part of the French trilogy series:
The Girl at the Lion d’Or
Charlotte Gray
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition - available for readers in the UK, Europe and Commonwealth only.
Advance Praise
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
Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable - The Times
One of the finest novels of the last forty years - Mail on Sunday
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 - New Yorker
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
My favourite novel of all time because it’s not just the most moving First World War story, it also has a wonderful romance - Daily Express
Marketing Plan
Birdsong is the definitive novel of the First World War and this edition is published to commemorate the centenary of WWI
The original Vintage edition has sold over 2 million copies
Birdsong
was chosen in a poll of reading groups as one of 15 'future classics'
that we would still be reading in 100 years time and was adapted in 2012
into a hugely successful BBC series
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781407052564 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
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