Book description
A novel of overwhelming emotional power,
Birdsong
is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young
Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with
the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle.
But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters, and
Stephen volunteers to fight on the Western Front. His love for Isabelle
forever engraved on his heart, he experiences the unprecedented horrors
of that conflict - from which neither he nor any reader of this book can
emerge unchanged. "A brilliant theatrical filleting by the young
playwright Rachel Wagstaff, ingeniously realised by director Trevor Nunn
and his greatest design associate, John Napier." The Independent
Sebastian Faulks is the author of the French trilogy, The Girl at the
Lion d'Or
, Birdsong
and Charlotte Gray
(1989-1997); a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman
(1996); a book of literary parodies, Pistache
(2006); a work of literary criticism that accompanied his hugely
successful BBC television series, Faulks on Fiction
(2011); and the novels Human Traces
(2005), Engleby
(2007) and the number one bestseller A Week in December
(2009). He lives in London with his wife and their three children.
