Book description
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ AĀ mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generationsĀ and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s
In this "overpowering and beautifulĀ novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire inā¦
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2 authors picked Birdsong as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A brilliant, shocking read but one Iāve read several times, and each time I read it the claustrophobic feeling of being trapped underground leaves me feeling breathless.
Although graphic in places, this is a beautifully written novel that I know Iāll return to time and again. As an author of World War One fiction, I aim to bring a sense of how it felt to be my characters and this book achieves that perfectly as far as Iām concerned.
From Deborah's list on World War One that live rent free in my head.
Heading back further in time to the First World War, this novel is unforgettable and devastating. What starts as a rather sexy story of forbidden love between our English soldier protagonist and a French woman is turned on its head when we are propelled into the barbarity and slaughter of the trenches. Entering our heroās mind on the night before the Battle of the Somme, and again when the whistles blow at first light, I felt physical sickening shock as I turned the pages, not wishing to continue reading, but unable to stop myself.Ā
From Catherine's list on people doing extraordinary things during wars.
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