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Author: Pat Barker   Series: Penguin Essentials

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The breathtaking novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy

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The breathtaking novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy

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The breathtaking novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogyIn the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville - himself not long out of the Slade but already a well-known painter - makes it clear that he, too, is attracted to Elinor, Paul withdraws into a passionate affair with an artist's model. As spring turns to summer, Paul and Elinor each reach a crisis in their relationships until finally, in the first few days of war, they turn to each other.Paul's new life as a volunteer for the Belgian Red Cross is a world away from his days at the Slade. The longer he remains in Ypres, the greater the distance between himself and home becomes, and by the time he returns, Paul must confront the fact that life, and love, will never be the same again.

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Critic Reviews

“Sharply written and elegantly constructed...breathtaking-- Guardian A compelling read-- Literary Review Thoughtful, ambiguous and powerful-- Sunday Telegraph A compelling read-- Literary Review”

Sharply written and elegantly constructed...breathtaking Guardian
A compelling read Literary Review
Thoughtful, ambiguous and powerful Sunday Telegraph
A compelling read Literary Review

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About the Author

Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her late thirties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road. The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
6th June 2019
Pages
256
ISBN
9780241986493

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