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French Trilogy

The French Trilogy is a loose sequence of novels set in France across the first half of the twentieth century. The books are not a continuous plot series with the same central characters; they are connected by place, emotional aftermath and the pressure of European history on private lives. The sequence moves from interwar France in Girl at the Lion d’Or, through the First World War in Birdsong, to occupied France and Resistance work in Charlotte Gray.

Reading order

Books in this series (3 books)

Birdsong cover

#2 – Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

Stephen Wraysford arrives in Amiens in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family and becomes involved in a passionate relationship that changes the course of his life. When the story moves to the Western Front, Stephen is an officer in the British army, enduring trench warfare,…

Charlotte Gray cover

#3 – Charlotte Gray

Sebastian Faulks

Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, is recruited for secret work in occupied France after her RAF lover is reported missing. Her official mission takes her into courier work and contact with Resistance networks, but her private search for Peter Gregory makes her position more dangerous.…