Toby's Room - Pat Barker

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Pat Barker returns to the First World War and to the characters of Life Class with her new novel Toby's Room a dark compelling story of human desire wartime horror and the power of friendship. When Toby is reported 'Missing Believed Killed' another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby's room. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded Toby's Room is a riveting drama of identity damage intimacy and loss. Toby's Room is Pat Barker's most powerful novel yet. Praise for Toby's Room: 'Heart-rendering return to the Great War . . . On every level Toby's 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 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 and Toby's Room. She lives in Durham.

TITLE: Toby's Room

AUTHOR: Pat Barker

SKU: 9780241145227

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 16/08/2012

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 272

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 153 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm

WEIGHT: 356 gr

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