High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Birdsong is a 1993 war novel by English author Sebastian Faulks. Faulks` fourth novel, it tells of a man called Stephen Wraysford at different stages of his life both before and during World War I. Birdsong is part of a trilogy of novels by Sebastian Faulks which includes The Girl at the Lion d`Or and Charlotte Gray which are all linked through location, history and several minor characters.