BIRDSONG

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. HIS LIFE GOES THROUGH 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.