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The Times' 20 best modern novels
10. 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks
Legend has it, 'Birdsong' took only three months to write, but Faulk's 1993 novel about one man's journey through the first world war in France remains a work of wry maturity and hard-hitting staying power, and one in which the Hollywood film rights have become a battle of its own.
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