The Regeneration Trilogy Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road Synopsis
The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker's sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction. 1917, Scotland. At Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the front. In his care are poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper...
'Harrowing, original, delicate and unforgettable Independent A masterpiece ... fiction of the highest order' Sunday Express
'A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians. Constantly surprising and formally superb' -- A. S. Byatt Daily Telegraph
'One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' -- Jonathan Coe
'One of the most distinguished works of contemporary fiction' -- Barry Unsworth
Author
About Pat Barker
Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration (1991); which was made into a film of the same name; The Eye in the Door (1993), which won the Guardian Fiction Prize; and The Ghost Road (1995), which won the Booker Prize, as well as the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, Life Class and Toby’s Room. She lives in Durham.
