Birdsong Summary
Sebastian Faulks

Birdsong Summary

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks is a novel about World War I and its effects on the novel's protagonist, Stephen Wraysford, as well as his granddaughter, Elizabeth Benson. Before the war, Stephen has an affair with a married woman which produces a child of which he is unaware. Stephen fights the Germans during the war and is deeply affected by the violence he witnesses. Sixty years later, Elizabeth becomes interested in learning...

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