Birdsong (novel) Birdsong (novel) Birdsong is a 1993 war novel and family saga by the English author Sebastian Faulks. It is Faulks' fourth novel. The plot follows two main characters living at different times: the first is Stephen Wraysford, a British soldier on the front line in Amiens during the First World War, and the second is his granddaughter, Elizabeth Benson, whose 1970s plotline follows her attempts to recover an understanding of Stephen's experience of the war. Faulks developed the novel to bring more public awareness to the experience of war remembered by WWI veterans. Most critics found this effort successful, commenting
Mia Birdsong Meanwhile, she spent time in the publishing industry and worked as a trainer and educator in the youth development and heather education field. Her experience also includes apprenticing as a midwife while also studying and practicing herbal medicine, building houses, and performing her passion of country music. She can also be seen as a frequent speaker and writer on low-income families and communities, social capital, and collective self-organizing. Birdsong has been published in the "Stanford Innovation Review", the "Huffington Post", "On Being" and The Good Men Project. She has also guest lectured at UC Berkeley. These are some of the