The Times' 20 best modern novels
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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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