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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... hand. His wife, almost equally well built, though with thick hair wound up on top of her head, shook hands and kissed the children on the cheek. "I am sorry, I didn't hear your name when Rene.
... hand. His wife, almost equally well built, though with thick hair wound up on top of her head, shook hands and kissed the children on the cheek. "I am sorry, I didn't hear your name when Rene.
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... hand and bowed his head briefly . Two children were staring at him from the other side of the table . " Lisette , " Madame Azaire said , gesturing to a girl of perhaps sixteen with dark hair in a ribbon , who smirked and held out her hand ...
... hand and bowed his head briefly . Two children were staring at him from the other side of the table . " Lisette , " Madame Azaire said , gesturing to a girl of perhaps sixteen with dark hair in a ribbon , who smirked and held out her hand ...
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... hand . His wife , almost equally well built , though with thick hair wound up on top of her head , shook hands and kissed the children on the cheek . " I am sorry , I didn't hear your name 6.
... hand . His wife , almost equally well built , though with thick hair wound up on top of her head , shook hands and kissed the children on the cheek . " I am sorry , I didn't hear your name 6.
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... hand , " I have some bad news . The dyers have called for a strike to begin tomorrow . The syndicate chiefs met the employers ' rep- resentatives at five this evening and that is their decision . ' Azaire snorted . " I thought the ...
... hand , " I have some bad news . The dyers have called for a strike to begin tomorrow . The syndicate chiefs met the employers ' rep- resentatives at five this evening and that is their decision . ' Azaire snorted . " I thought the ...
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... hand . " A little brandy , if you please , Azaire . Thank you . Now then . I am going to do something in which I risk playing the fool and making you think ill of me . " Madame Bérard laughed incredulously . " I am going to sing . Yes ...
... hand . " A little brandy , if you please , Azaire . Thank you . Now then . I am going to do something in which I risk playing the fool and making you think ill of me . " Madame Bérard laughed incredulously . " I am going to sing . Yes ...
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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