Eye In The Door

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The Eye in the Door is the second novel in Pat Barker's classic Regeneration trilogy. Winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize. London 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women & men
- pacifists objectors homosexuals
- conflict with his duties as a soldier & it is not long before his sense of himself fragments & breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before
- army psychiatrist William Rivers
- Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be.. . The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war & of those forced to live through it. A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings male & female soldiers & civilians". (A. S. Byatt Daily Telegraph). " Every bit as waveringly intense & intelligent as its predecessor". (Sunday Times). " Startlingly original.. .spellbinding". (Sunday Telegraph). " Gripping moving profoundly intelligent.. .bursting with energy & darkly funny". (Independent on Sunday). Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy comprising Regeneration which has been filmed The Eye in the Door which won the Guardian Fiction Prize & The Ghost Road which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured the Observer's 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World Border Crossing Double Vision Life Class & Toby's Room. She lives in Durham."