And the Birds Sang ...

«And the birds sang…» – the most famous novel by Sebastian Faulks, which has become a classic of modern English literature. Released in 1993, it has since remained on the lists of the most beloved literary works of all time among the British. 

1910. Young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in the small French town of Amiens, where he falls in love with Isabelle Azaire. The young woman is unhappy in her unequal marriage and reciprocates Stephen's feelings. The inability to cope with their mad passion compels them to flee from Amiens…

But war begins, and Stephen enlists as a volunteer at the front, where, in the bloody chaos of a universal scale, he desperately tries to maintain his sanity and will to live. He records his feelings and thoughts in a diary, which he keeps in defiance of the wartime prohibitions.

Decades later, this diary finds its way into the hands of his granddaughter Elizabeth. The circle is completed – the past meets the present.