Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.
- ISBN10 0099387913
- ISBN13 9780099387916
- Publish Date 7 July 1994 (first published 16 September 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 January 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Vintage
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 528
- Language English