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Birdsong Ludwig Bemelmans Stevie Smith was not onlyCrafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come. Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in