RECOMMENDED BY RICHARD OSMAN. Scotland, 1917: at Craiglockhart War Hospital, army psychiatrist William Rivers tends to soldiers broken by the trenches. Among those under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside the mute Billy Prior, who can communicate only through pencil and paper. Rivers’s mission is to restore his patients’ minds — yet the more successfully he heals them, the more agonising his obligation to return them to the slaughter of the front. Pat Barker’s Regeneration is a powerfully moving modern classic of contemporary war fiction, and a profound meditation on trauma, duty, and the human cost of conflict in the First World War. From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls. ‘Brilliant, intense and subtle’ Peter Kemp, Sunday Times ‘Unforgettable’ Sunday Telegraph ‘One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation’ Guardian The Regeneration trilogy: Regeneration The Eye in the Door The Ghost Road
ISBN 13: 9780141030937
Author: Pat Barker
