{"product_id":"birdsong","title":"Birdsong","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFAULKS, Sebastian. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBirdsong.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLondon: Hutchinson, 1993. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e8vo., forest green publisher’s boards, lettered in silver to spine; grey endpapers; original unclipped pictorial dust jacket (£14.99 net), pp. [x], 3-407, [i]; a fine copy, with only one or two tiny marks to the lower edge of text block, and one to the title page; jacket also fine, with just a touch of creasing to the upper edge. A beautiful copy, overall, of the author’s most famous work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition\u003c\/strong\u003e, with full number line 1-9. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirdsong\u003c\/em\u003e was Faulks’s fourth novel, but is arguably the one which truly launched him to fame. It follows the lives of Stephen Wraysford, a soldier serving on the front lines in Amiens during WWI, and in parallel his granddaughter Elizabeth Benson, following her journey as she tries to trace her grandfather’s history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e“If I am fighting on behalf of anyone, I think it is for those who have died. Not for the living at home. For the dead, over here.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55917391872324,"sku":"SQ5862921","price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/51_Foldthecornerbooks_02110.webp?v=1762864000","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/birdsong","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}