Birdsong travel writing Author(s): Paley

Author(s): Paley

An inventive new look at the entwined histories of Britain and Ireland's nations - and the people who have called them home

it's a revelation

Featuring a menagerie of supporting oddballs

With Helen Scales

Birdsong travel writing Author(s): Paley'Magnificent deeply moving' Sunday Times'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' The TimesIn the heat of the French summer of 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in Amiens to stay with the Azaire family. But soon a secret passion emerges that threatens to destroy the household. Six years later, Stephen finds himself on the Western Front with civilization itself in the balance. And in a maze of tunnels under the trenches he will fight for