Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks 1993

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
war love loss historical trauma

Our Take

The tunnels. Always the tunnels. Faulks writes the First World War with such physical intimacy that the mud and darkness feel personal. Stephen Wraysford loves badly and survives worse, and the novel moves between love and annihilation without ever letting you breathe. The trenches have never felt so underground.

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