Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

"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