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Informationen zum Autor Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks's books include A Possible Life , Human Traces , On Green Dolphin Street , Engleby , Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat. Klappentext 1936! Chalfont Hall! Dorset! and as the dressmaker puts the last pins in her dress! thirteen-year-old Kit is wondering why she has to go through the charade of seeing her sister Lily presented at Court. With her waves of auburn hair and her piercing green eyes! Kit knows that her sister's place on the social scene is guaranteed regardless of her dress! and as the door to a life of parties and eligible young men opens for Lily! Kit must make do with tiptoeing around the gallery of Chalfont! eavesdropping on the conversations of the grown-ups. But the arrival one evening of a distinctly German visitor soon sets in motion a chain of events that none of the family could have anticipated. Years later! the aftershock of events will be felt by a new generation . . .In this captivating family drama which sweeps from the 1930s to the present day! Lesley Lokko spins a story of sisters and long-held secrets. Zusammenfassung 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 experience of the war itself.
