Regeneration By Pat Barker (Paperback, 2008)

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Regeneration is Pat Barker's classic Man Booker Prize-nominated novel of World War I & trauma Craiglockhart War Hospital Scotland 1917 & army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen as well as mute Billy Prior who is only able to communicate by means of pencil & 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 This is the first novel in Pat Barker's Man Booker Prize-winning Regeneration Trilogy'A brilliant novel Intense & subtle' Peter Kemp Sunday Times'A vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War & a multi-layered exploration of all wars A fine anthem for doomed youth' Time Out'A novel of tremendous power' Margaret Forster ' Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph' One of the strongest & most interesting novelists of her generation' Guardian Other titles in the trilogy The Eye in the Door The Ghost Road