Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

bSebastian Faulksb has written nineteen books of which iA Week in Decemberi and iThe Fatal Englishmani were number one in the iSunday Timesi bestseller lists. He is best known for iBirdsongi part of his French trilogy and iHuman Tracesi the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a fulltime writer he worked as a journalist on national papers.