Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks Audio Book

Amiens, 1910, and the young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, has been sent by his employer to study the textile trade. His host, Azaire, is a prosperous manufacturer whose second wife, Isabelle, is step-mother to his adolescent children. Stephen and Isabelle are aware immediately of a bond between them which oversteps any considerations of propriety. The outcome is surprising and painful. The Somme, 1916, and Stephen is now a lieutenant in the British army, lonely and brooding, and France has become a bloody battlefield