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The Eye in the Door
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  • Published: 7 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141030944
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.00
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The Eye in the Door




World War One's sexual and political dissenters are given voice in the winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize

London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men – pacifists, objectors, homosexuals – conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before – army psychiatrist William Rivers – Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be …

The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it.

The second book in the Regeneration trilogy

  • Published: 7 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141030944
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.00
Categories:

About the author

Pat Barker

Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995), which won the Booker Prize, as well as the more recent novels Border Crossing and Double Vision. She lives in Durham.

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Praise for The Eye in the Door

Gripping, moving, beautifully constrcted and profoundly intelligent

Independent on Sunday