'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. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks is a novel about World War I and its effects on the novels protagonist, Stephen Wraysford, as well as his granddaughter. 'One of the finest novels of the last forty years' - Mail on Sunday 'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' - The Times Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel, just a great one' - Simon Schama, The 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' - The Daily Mail This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again" - The Sunday Express Searingly dispassionate in its account of life in the trenches and the commonplace nature of death, Peter Firths narration of Sebastian Faulkss wartime. 'With Birdsong, Faulks has produced a mesmerizing story of love and war. 'Magnificent - deeply moving' - The Sunday Times
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