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French Trilogy

by Sebastian Faulks 3 books in this series

The French Trilogy is a loose sequence of three novels set in France across the first half of the twentieth century. The Girl at the Lion d’Or explores private love and political unease in 1936; Birdsong moves between pre-war Amiens and the Western Front of the First World War; Charlotte Gray follows clandestine work, collaboration and persecution in France during the Second World War. Recurring characters and memories connect the books, but each stands as an independent story.

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Books in this series (3 books)

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1. The Girl at the Lion d’Or

Sebastian Faulks

First published 1989

3.6(9,540)

France, 1936. Anne Louvet leaves Paris for a job at the faded Hotel du Lion d’Or in a Breton town, carrying the burden of a family scandal and a past she would rather conceal. There she meets Charles Hartmann, an older married lawyer whose experience of…

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2. Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

First published 1993

4.1(93,323)

In 1910 Stephen Wraysford travels to Amiens on business and falls in love with Isabelle Azaire, the wife of his host. Their affair is intense and disruptive, leaving Stephen with memories that follow him when Europe moves from the confidence of the pre-war years into industrial…

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3. Charlotte Gray

Sebastian Faulks

First published 1998

3.9(14,783)

During the Second World War, Charlotte Gray is recruited for clandestine work and sent into France under a false identity. Her official task brings her into contact with Resistance networks, while a private determination to discover what happened to her missing RAF lover makes every movement…

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