This World War I story focuses on a group of shell shocked British soldiers who are all patients at a psychiatric hospital in Scotland. It is an interesting way to portray the horrors of war. The reader gets snippets of some devastating scenes through the dialog between soldier and psychiatrist. ...
I had never heard of Pat Barker before, and read this as a monthly book group read.It is a sad story about a brother an sister, who share a very dark secret, and is set just before the First World War. The family they come from is slightly dysfunctional, but fairly well to do, and Elinor has a tempe...
As wonderful as I was told it would be. Really. It's wonderful. Best WW1 novel I've read to-date. Also a very close to the line, never becoming voyeurism RPF. It's real people, living in what is for us remote history, a time in history which was difficult, a daily nightmare for the men and women on ...
In Life Class, Pat Barker explores the nexus between art and war. The first half of the book concerns three young people studying in a prestigious art school in London. These students are suffering from the anxieties typical of youth. Class barriers, the pressures of the school's demands, their...
Harrowing stuff, although for me some of the characters (especially Toby) not fleshed out enough to be bothered about and some of her techniques (dream sequences for instance...) i found weak, but once again she brings the emotions and horrors of WW1 vividly to life and the main storyline - althoug...
I liked this book while I was reading it. It follows the main character's life from 1900 until her death, alternating with the story of a social worker who is trying to get her to move from her derelict house so that it can be torn down. It had some interesting (although grim) details about life for...
What becomes of us when all we know is death and killing, and that is taken away?If that is the question being asked, the answer is not forthcoming. The book ends just before the war does, so we never get to see how any surviving characters would reintegrate into civilian life. From their worries, t...
Thank you for this book, Dawn!!!!! Thank you, Jeanette, for bringing it to my door. Dawn, you should soon get The Housekeeper and the Professor from me. :0)**************I am "enjoying" this read, if one can speak of enjoying anything about the horrors of the trenches of WW1 warfare. Although none ...
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