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Birdsong

Birdsong

Author(s): Sebastian Faulks

Location(s): France, London

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1910-1970

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Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.

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Sebastian Faulks is a master of detail, which makes the readers feel they’re actually there, in the mud of Flanders, the Somme, France….beautiful in its horrendous detail. – Maverick –

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