Deze trilogie duikt in het hart van oorlogvoerende conflicten en de diepgaande impact ervan op individuele levens. Elke roman onthult intieme details over personages wier lotsbestemmingen verweven zijn met de intense ervaringen van oorlog en de nasleep ervan. De serie onderzoekt meesterlijk de veerkracht van de menselijke geest tegenover immens lijden. Het biedt een krachtig en aangrijpend onderzoek naar overleving en verlies.
A haunting historical novel set in France between the two world wars about love and desireFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BIRDSONGMid-1930s, Northern France. At the hotel, Anne meets the cultured, rich and married Hartmann and begins anaffair with the married Great War veteran, revealing her secrets, fears and hopes to him.
Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.
A remarkable story of a Scottish woman in Occupied France pursuing a perilous mission of her own FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BIRDSONG In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, heads for Occupied France on a dual mission - officially, to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and unofficially, to search for her lover, an English airman missing in action. She travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. As the people in the small town prepare to meet their terrible destiny, Charlotte must come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place in Europe's darkest years, and confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days. 'There is no shortage of dramatic tension, excitement or persuasive detail... Faulks is a prodigiously talented writer' New York Times ---- Also available by Sebastian Faulks as part of the French trilogy series: Girl at The Lion d'Or Birdsong