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Biographical note
Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.Magnificent - deeply moving
Sunday Times
With <i>Birdsong</i> 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
This is a great love story
Daily Express
One of the finest novels of the last forty years
Mail on Sunday
This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it
Time Out
So powerful is this recreated past that you long to call <i>Birdsong </i>perfect
The Times
A powerful novel that is difficult to put down
Independent on Sunday