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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War (Vintage International)

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Bloomsbury Publishing". Bloomsbury.com. Archived from the original on 15 January 2008 . Retrieved 12 December 2010.

Faulks wrote the novel partly because he felt that the First World War had not been discussed enough in both literary and historical contexts. [ citation needed] Reflecting on the novel twenty years later, Faulks felt that the published version did not fully do justice to the experience of war: it did not provide readers with "a full appreciation of the soldiers' physical experience; and, perhaps more importantly, a philosophical understanding of what it meant to be part of the first genocidal event of the century – the one that made the others imaginable". [ citation needed] Leaning, Jennifer (2002). "Review of La Tendresse". British Medical Journal. 325 (7369): 908. doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7369.908. JSTOR 25452659. S2CID 71468801. After a devastating car crash and unable to play her flute, Annie retreats from the music she's always loved. She exists in a world of angry silence – furious with her mum and furious she can't seem to play her beloved flute anymore.

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René Azaire – Factory owner in Amiens. He states that Stephen will go to Hell for his affair with his wife Isabelle. Embarrassed by his inability to have a child with his wife he beats Isabelle.

I believe there are novels that affect you long after you have closed the book and I do believe that this is one of them. It was fated for me to read this book (at least I believe it to be so) since as I walked into the library, this book was propped up on the shelf seeming to send a message saying take me home. I listened and am ever so grateful I did take this powerful book home and to heart. whenever anyone asks me what my least favourite book is, i always say this, which seems odd considering it's been voted as the 100 best books on a bbc list or whatever it was.I could not stop listening to this book. It is wonderful. I just finished. I haven't been able to do anything except listen to this book. Excellent narration by Peter Firth. I loved it. I loved all the emotion - horror of war and passionate love. And great lines and so much to think about...... Can I collect my thoughts?!

a b c Nikkhah, Roya (23 May 2010). "Sebastian Faulks novel Birdsong to be made into West End play". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016 . Retrieved 30 August 2016. Sebastien Faulks won my heart with his WWII espionage book, Charlotte Gray. Well, right until that ending that left me scratching my head. But Birdsong truly moved me and is quite simply- an AMAZING book. It is less the romance, but Stephen's time on the frontlines and his time with his men that was truly the gem of the book. review: A book in seven parts; the first being set in 1910 in France, where a wild affair between a young Stephen Wraysford and his host's wife(!) Isabelle, devastates the families involved, as well as setting the foundations of the book. It then alternates between the lengthy Wraysford 's First World War experiences and the very short sections of his granddaughter seeking to find out his war and post war story. This book has everything. It is exciting and horribly moving and oh so wonderful. It is like life: full of the worst and most wonderful. Mullan, John (13 July 2012). "Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016 . Retrieved 30 August 2016.

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a b c d e f g h i j Wheeler, Pat (26 June 2002). "The Novel's Reception". Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong. Continuum Publishing International. pp.69–74. ISBN 0-8264-5323-6. Archived from the original on 5 August 2021 . Retrieved 4 September 2016. Love and war always seem to go together in fiction. In ancient literature, it is love that makes men fight; in unheroic ages, the relationship is less direct. Faulks's unromantic choice is to have his protagonist forget the woman he loved once he is in the trenches. The novel forgets her too: in its pre-war first section, some passages are narrated from her point of view, but once she and Stephen have separated, she is gone. It is rather that the sensual detail of their brief time as lovers is horrifically parodied by Stephen's physical life as a soldier. These examples might be termed calls rather than songs proper. But there’s more than might be imagined to even the shortest and simplest-seeming calls. Among many different species of songbirds, for example, the alarm calls for an overflying hawk are almost identical: a thin, compressed whistle, delivered with the bill barely open, thought to be designed to alert as many birds as possible without causing excessive risk to the sentinel. The hawk can’t get a fix on the source of the sound. Elizabeth Benson – Granddaughter of Stephen Wraysford. Elizabeth has a job in company which manufactures garments. She wants to find out more about World War I and her grandfather's actions. She does this by phoning elderly servicemen, visiting war memorials and translating Stephen's diary.

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