A review by annabelws23
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks

2.0

As an AS literature student for my course I have found myself reading many books on the first world war, thus in a way I feel as though the horrors explored in ww1 literature, for me, have become desensitised. This being said I found the ending most poignant- although not so much as Remarke's All Quiet On The Western Front. However I must say that a majority of the book felt like gap fillers with little relevanve to the plot. If birdsong was shorter, with less of a wait for the plot to have a semblance of interesting narrative I should have enjoyed it more.