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A historical fiction novel set during World War I, documenting characters based on real people and their experiences with shell shock and recovery at the CraigLockhart Hospital.
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- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Pat Barker
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Compass Press, HarperCollins Audio, Charnwood
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- heb, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781531874162
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Patricia Mary W. Barker (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is known for her *Regeneration* Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and for a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with *The Silence of the Girls.*
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