Regeneration

A powerfully moving modern classic from one of Britains greatest living storytellers - the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Silence of the Girls

Recommended by Richard Osman

Regeneration is a masterful and richly immersive portrait of extraordinary lives played out in the shadow of the First World War...

UnforgettableSunday Telegraph

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. Riverss 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 Barkers Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.
One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generationGuardian
Regeneration is the first novel in Pat Barkers essential trilogy about the First World War. Discover the whole trilogy:

Regeneration
The Eye in the Door
The Ghost Road