Regeneration
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Pub. Penguin 2008 'Regeneration' begins 'The Regeneration Trilogy' and is followed by 'The Eye in the Door', winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, and 'The Ghost Road', which won the 1995 Booker Prize.
Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where 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. Rivers's 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 . Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. The first book in the Regeneration trilogy
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