A review by emmalthompson85
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks

3.0

The sections of this book which dealt with the war were, while dark, lovely to read. I personally feel that the book was let down by the begining section, a drawn out account of the main characters love affair with a married woman. This wasn't helped by the fact that I found many of the characters flat and unbelievable. We are given large chunks of back story but I never felt the characters. In fact, the only character through this book that I felt connected to was Jack Firebrace. Worth reading for the war sections, but I found the romance dry and, in light of the fact that they brought almost nothing to the narrative, the sections from the point of view of the protagonists granddaughter could have been skipped entirely.