Now a major BBC adaptation

"Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a prefect novel--just a great one."--Simon Schama, "New Yorker"

"An amazing book--among the most stirringly erotic I have read for years...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."--Quentin Crewe, "Daily Mail"

"This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again."--Andrew James, "Sunday Express"

"One of the finest novels of the last 40 years."--Brian Masters, "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."--Nigel Watts, "Time Out"

Sebastian Faulks is the author of the French trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997); a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman (1996); a book of literary parodies, Pistache (2006); a work of literary criticism that accompanied his hugely successful BBC television series, Faulks on Fiction (2011); and the novels Human Traces (2005), Engleby (2007) and the number one bestseller A Week in December (2009). He lives in London with his wife and their three children.