Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love. |
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... hair in the small mirror. He placed half a dozen cigarettes in a metal case that he tucked inside his jacket. He emptied his pockets of items he no longer needed: railway tickets, a blue leather notebook, and a knife with a single ...
... hair in the small mirror. He placed half a dozen cigarettes in a metal case that he tucked inside his jacket. He emptied his pockets of items he no longer needed: railway tickets, a blue leather notebook, and a knife with a single ...
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... hair, caught and held up off her face. She wore a white lace blouse with a dark red stone at the throat. As they finished dinner there was a ring at the front door and they heard a hearty male voice in the hall. Azaire smiled for the ...
... hair, caught and held up off her face. She wore a white lace blouse with a dark red stone at the throat. As they finished dinner there was a ring at the front door and they heard a hearty male voice in the hall. Azaire smiled for the ...
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... hair in the small mirror . He placed half a dozen cigarettes in a metal case that he tucked inside his jacket . He emptied his pockets of items he no longer needed : railway tickets , a blue leather notebook , and a knife with a single ...
... hair in the small mirror . He placed half a dozen cigarettes in a metal case that he tucked inside his jacket . He emptied his pockets of items he no longer needed : railway tickets , a blue leather notebook , and a knife with a single ...
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... hair in a ribbon , who smirked and held out her hand , " and Grégoire . " This was a boy of about ten , whose small head was barely visible above the table , beneath which he was swinging his legs vigorously backward and forward . The ...
... hair in a ribbon , who smirked and held out her hand , " and Grégoire . " This was a boy of about ten , whose small head was barely visible above the table , beneath which he was swinging his legs vigorously backward and forward . The ...
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... hair , caught and held up off her face . She wore a white lace blouse with a dark red stone at the throat . As they finished dinner there was a ring at the front door and they heard a hearty male voice in the hall . Azaire smiled for ...
... hair , caught and held up off her face . She wore a white lace blouse with a dark red stone at the throat . As they finished dinner there was a ring at the front door and they heard a hearty male voice in the hall . Azaire smiled for ...
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Amiens arettes Arthur Shaw asked Azaire's Beaumont-Hamel began beneath better body breathed Byrne camouflet cigarette dark door dugout earth Elizabeth Ellis eyes face feel feet fingers flesh floor front German glass gone Grand-mère Gray Grégoire guns hair hand head heard Isabelle Isabelle's Jack Firebrace Jack's Jeanne Kroger Lamm laughed legs Levi Lisette listening lives Madame Azaire Madame Bérard Marguérite Meyraux Michael Weir mind Monsieur morning moved night nodded noise pulled pushed red room Rouen round sandbags Sebastian Faulks seemed Shaw shell shellhole shook shoulder shouted side sitting skin smiled sound Stephen felt Stephen heard Stephen looked stood stopped talk tell There's Thiepval things thought told took trench tried tunnel turned underground voice walked watched Weir Weir's whisky wine woman wooden Wraysford