**_From Booker Prize winner Pat Barker, a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of the Great War. Admirers of her Regeneration Trilogy as well as fans of_ Downton Abbey _and_ War Horse** _**will be enthralled.** _**** With _Toby's Room_ , a sequel to her widely praised previous
Toby's Room
β Scribed by Pat Barker
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Anchor Books
- Year
- 2012;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
From Booker Prize winner Pat Barker, a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of the Great War. Admirers of her Regeneration Trilogy as well as fans of Downton Abbey and War Horse _will be enthralled.
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With Toby's Room , a sequel to her widely praised previous novel Life Class , the incomparable Pat Barker confirms her place in the pantheon of Britain's finest novelists. This indelible portrait of a family torn apart by war focuses on Toby Brooke, a medical student, and his younger sister Elinor. Enmeshed in a web of complicated family relationships, Elinor and Toby are close: some might say too close. But when World War I begins, Toby is posted to the front as a medical officer while Elinor stays in London to continue her fine art studies at the Slade, under the tutelage of Professor Henry Tonks. There, in a startling development based in actual fact, Elinor finds that her drafting skills...
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