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Book SynopsisThe masterful second novel in Pat Barker''s classic ''Regeneration'' trilogy - from the Booker Prize-winning and Women''s Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls
WINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE
''Spellbinding and startlingly original'' Sunday Telegraph
''Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent'' Independent on Sunday
''A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians'' A. S. Byatt, Daily Telegraph
London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and 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 super
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Gripping, moving, beautifully constrcted and profoundly intelligent Independent on Sunday
