The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong . We hope they will enrich your understanding of this overpowering and harrowing novel, a Tolstoyan epic of love, war, and redemption.

The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong . We hope they will enrich your understanding of this overpowering and harrowing novel, a Tolstoyan epic of love, war, and redemption. Sebastian Faulks is best known for his trilogy of novels set in France: The Girl at the Lion d’Or, Birdsong, and Charlotte Gray, the latter two of which were bestsellers. After a period in France, he and his family now live in London.