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Tobys Room
In Tobys Room" Pat Barker revisits the First World War and the characters introduced in "Life Class". When Toby is reported Missing Believed Killed another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinors world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Tobys room. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Marys Hospital where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded "Tobys Room" is a riveting drama of identity damage intimacy and loss. "Tobys Room" is Pat Barkers most powerful novel yet. "Heart-rendering return to the Great War...On every level "Tobys Room" anatomises a world where extreme emotion shatters the boundaries
of identity behaviour gender. Through the mask of Apollo bursts an omnipresent Dionysus". ("Independent"). "Once again Barker skilfully moves between past and present seamlessly weaving fact and fiction into a gripping narrative". ("Sunday Telegraph"). "A gripping and moving exploration of the lasting effects of war". ("Woman & Home"). "A natural storyteller.. .the reader [will be] torn between wanting to linger over the sheer pleasure of the writing and the desire to rush towards the end to discover how it all pans out". ("Daily Mail"). 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 and "The Ghost Road" which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured in the "Observers 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" and "Tobys Room". She lives in Durham."
of identity behaviour gender. Through the mask of Apollo bursts an omnipresent Dionysus". ("Independent"). "Once again Barker skilfully moves between past and present seamlessly weaving fact and fiction into a gripping narrative". ("Sunday Telegraph"). "A gripping and moving exploration of the lasting effects of war". ("Woman & Home"). "A natural storyteller.. .the reader [will be] torn between wanting to linger over the sheer pleasure of the writing and the desire to rush towards the end to discover how it all pans out". ("Daily Mail"). 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 and "The Ghost Road" which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured in the "Observers 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" and "Tobys Room". She lives in Durham."
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