Pat Barker returns to the First World War in ” Toby`s Room”, a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror & 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
- & 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 & art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, ” Toby`s Room” is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy & loss. ” Toby`s Room” is Pat Barker`s most powerful novel yet. Toby’s Room features characters which previously appeared in Pat Barker’s Life Class. Like the author’s highly acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy, Life Cass & Toby’s Room will also eventually become part of a trilogy, with its final, still being written volume set in World War II. 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.