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Toby's Room by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
Toby and Elinor, brother and sister, friends and confidants, are sharers of a dark secret, carried from the summer of 1912 into the battlefields of France and wartime London in 1917. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exac ...Show more
Toby's Room by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Life Class Trilogy Ser.
Pat Barker returns to the First World War in "Toby's Room", a dark, compelling novel 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 de ...Show more
Union Street & Blow Your House Down by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
"Union Street," Pat Barker's first novel, concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of them are married to alcoholics, some are victims of abuse; one is old and near death, another is still a child but has the experience of an adult; all a ...Show more
War Talk by Pat Barker
Category: Asian | Series: Pocket Penguins 67
Taken from Pat Barker's celebrated Regeneration, War Talk charts two encounters in a time of war the developing friendship of Wilfed Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and the unexpected romance of Billy Prior and Sarah Lumb.