Regeneration: The first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy
May 2008 · Regeneration Book 1 · Penguin UK
4.2star
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256
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A powerfully moving modern classic from one of Britain's greatest living storytellers - the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Silence of the Girls
Recommended by Richard Osman
Regeneration is a masterful and richly immersive portrait of extraordinary lives played out in the shadow of the First World War...
'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph
Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and 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' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.
'One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation' Guardian
Regeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's essential trilogy about the First World War. Discover the whole trilogy:
Regeneration
The Eye in the Door
The Ghost Road
Recommended by Richard Osman
Regeneration is a masterful and richly immersive portrait of extraordinary lives played out in the shadow of the First World War...
'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph
Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and 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' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.
'One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation' Guardian
Regeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's essential trilogy about the First World War. Discover the whole trilogy:
Regeneration
The Eye in the Door
The Ghost Road
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4.2
10 reviews
Jeroen Kappé
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February 17, 2017
Amazingly boring and not juicy
Alexandra Hunt
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October 17, 2017
Great read.
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About the author
Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. She lives in Durham and her new novel, The Silence of the Girls, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in August 2018.
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