Birdsong
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cornerstone
Published:15th Jun '23
Should be back in stock very soon
'Magnificent - deeply moving' Sunday Times
'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' The Times
In the heat of the French summer of 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in Amiens to stay with the Azaire family. But soon a secret passion emerges that threatens to destroy the household. Six years later, Stephen finds himself on the Western Front with civilization itself in the balance. And in a maze of tunnels under the trenches he will fight for everything he has known and loved.
An epic of love, death and redemption, Birdsong has moved millions of readers all over the world to become a contemporary classic.
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 *
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 *
Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable * The Times *
ISBN: 9781804946015
Dimensions: 238mm x 160mm x 46mm
Weight: 760g
528 pages