{"product_id":"pat-barker-tobys-room-2012","title":"Pat Barker: Toby's Room [2012]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eToby's Room\u003c\/i\u003e, Pat Barker revisits the First World War and the characters introduced in \u003ci\u003eLife Class\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby's room. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, \u003ci\u003eToby's Room\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss. \u003ci\u003eToby's Room \u003c\/i\u003eis Pat Barker's most powerful novel yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Heart-rendering return to the Great War . . . On every level, \u003ci\u003eToby's Room\u003c\/i\u003e anatomises a world where extreme emotion shatters the boundaries of identity, behaviour, gender. Through the mask of Apollo bursts an omnipresent Dionysus'  \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Once again Barker skilfully moves between past and present, seamlessly weaving fact and fiction into a gripping narrative'  \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A gripping and moving exploration of the lasting effects of war'  \u003ci\u003eWoman \u0026amp; Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A natural storyteller . . .  the reader [will be] torn between wanting to linger over the sheer pleasure of the writing and the desire to rush towards the end to discover how it all pans out'  \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eRegeneration \u003c\/i\u003etrilogy, comprising \u003ci\u003eRegeneration\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been filmed, \u003ci\u003eThe Eye in the Door\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Road\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured in the \u003ci\u003eObserver's\u003c\/i\u003e 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels \u003ci\u003eAnother World\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Border Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDouble Vision\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLife Class\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eToby's Room\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Durham.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barker, Pat","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51182135902547,"sku":"9780241144572","price":22.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":51182135935315,"sku":"XV80241144572","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/barker-pat-pat-barker-toby-s-room-2012-1173242351.jpg?v=1749862412","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/pat-barker-tobys-room-2012","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}