Pat Barker
Harriett Gilbert talks to Pat Barker about her classic novel Regeneration.
This month World Book Club is in a reflective mood as we mark the beginning of the centenary commemorations for World War One by inviting multi-award-winning British writer Pat Barker on to the programme.
She'll be talking to us about her internationally renowned novel Regeneration, the first in the trilogy which culminated in the Booker Prize winner The Ghost Road.
Also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now recognised, twenty-two years after its publication, as a modern war classic, Regeneration is a part-historical, part-fictional exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.
Picture: WW1 patients recuperating in hospital in 1918, Credit: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
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- Sun 5 Jan 2014 20:06GMTBBC World Service Online
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