Regeneration by Pat Barker - ISBN: 9780141030937
Paperback
Mending minds in wartime: Can healing justify sending them back?

Regeneration

The first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    7 November 2019

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Summary

The Booker Prize-nominated first book in Pat Barker’s award-winning World War One trilogy.

Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers’s job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients’ mind…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141030937
ISBN-10:0141030933
Author:Pat Barker
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:7 November 2019
Weight:232g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 22mm
Series:Regeneration
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Critics Review

A brilliant novel. Intense and subtle

A brilliant novel. Intense and subtle – Peter Kemp Sunday Times

About The Author

Pat Barker

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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