Birdsong (novel) on how the novel, like many other WWI novels, thematically focuses on the way in which the experience of trauma shapes individual psyches. Similarly, because of the parallel narratives WWI and 1970s Britain, the novel explores metahistorical questions about how to document and recover narratives about the past. Because of its genre, themes and writing style, the novel has been favourably compared to a number of other war novels, like Ian McEwan's "Atonement" and those in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy. "Birdsong" is part of a loose trilogy of novels by Sebastian Faulks, alongside "The Girl at the Lion d'Or" and
Mia Birdsong have her first experience of reading books to represent a world that is filled with people of color. Birdsong wanted her daughter to grow up being comfortable in her own skin and to see herself in this world. The positive impact books written by people of color had on Birdsong's daughter was inspirational. Her daughter was able to see herself in the world in a way that Birdsong did not at her age. Birdsong made it one of her life missions to bring this awareness to families and their communities so every child can see themselves for who they are