![]() ![]() A strange, occasionally bitter man, Stephen is possessed of an inexplicable will to survive. Picardy, this time as a soldier on the Western Front. Several years later, with the outbreak of World War I, he finds himself again in the fields of While there he plunges into a love affair with the young wife of his host, a passion so imperative and consuming that it changes him forever. In 1910 a young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, goes to Picardy, France, to learn the textile business. We hope they will enrich your understanding of this overpowering and harrowing novel, a Tolstoyan epic of love, war, and redemption. The questions and discussion topics that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of Sebastian Faulks'sīirdsong. ![]()
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