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Regeneration

Regeneration (Book 1)

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The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls

Recommended by Richard Osman

Regeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy - a powerfully moving portrait of the deep legacy of human trauma in the First World War

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.

'Brilliant, intense and subtle' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

'One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation' Guardian

'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph


© Pat Barker 1991 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Author Pat Barker
Narrator Simon Russell Beale
Series Regeneration
Duration 8 hours and 53 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780241994160
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre First World War fiction, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: health and illness, Narrative theme: war and conflict
Availability AU, GB, IE

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