Birdsong by Sebastain Faulks

 18.33 of 54 BBC Big Read.

Part love story, part war story. Not a fan of both the genres. So this was essentially a difficult read for me. Pages and pages of digging tunnels. Tunnels caving in. Getting multilated by grenades and enemy fire. One hero not afraid of death, as he has nothing to live for. Everyone around him dying one after another in war.

First half was an epic love story? A young man falling in love with a married woman, something in lines of Anna Kerenina. The woman reciprocating the feelings. Where is the story going to lead. We all know that the outcome of this would be in the early decades of last century, this was a doomed relationship. But things turn quickly. And then there is another twist and our hero becomes a war hero. Then a million people died in War. But our hero gets a happy ending, not what we would expect in the beginning but a different happy ending. 

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