Birdsong (novel) the experience of the World War I trenches. In both 2013 and 2014, Faulks indicated that a feature film adaptation was in development. The screenplay is by Rupert Wyatt, and the film is expected to star Nicholas Hoult. 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
Birdsong (novel) and "War and Remembrance." Gorra described the novel as even more original than Barker's "The Ghost Road" and the rest of her Regeneration Trilogy. Kate Saunders, reviewing "Birdsong" for "The Sunday Times", praised the novel and described it as "without the political cynicism that colours more modern treatments of this catastrophe". Reviewers have also compared the novel to other literary works; for example, for one critic, the lead up to the Somme was as persuasive as the "scene in "Henry V" before the Battle of Agincourt", while the novelist Suzanne Ruta writes that Faulks creates characters with a similar depth