Life Class is Pat Barker's powerful & unforgettable story of art & war. Spring 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks' studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out & the army won't take Paul he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross just as he & fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings for one another. Amidst the devastation in Ypres Paul comes to see the world anew
- but have his experiences changed him completely? Triumphant shattering inspiring". (The Times). " Barker writes as brilliantly as ever.. .with great tenderness & insight she conveys a wartime world turned upside down". (Independent on Sunday). " Vigorous masterly gripping". (Penelope Lively Independent). " Extraordinarily powerful". (Sunday Telegraph). 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."