Pat Barker,Nicola  Barber
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,
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,With ,Tobyâ€™s Room,, a sequel to her widely praised previous novel ,Life Class,, the incomparable Pat Barker confirms her place in the pantheon of Britainâ€™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 are deployed to aid in the literal reconstruction of those maimed in combat.,One day in 1917, Elinor has a sudden premonition that Toby will not return from France. Three weeks later the family receives a telegram informing them that Toby is â€œMissing, Believed Killedâ€ in Ypres. However, there is no body, and Elinor refuses to accept the official explanation. Then she finds a letter hidden in the lining of Tobyâ€™s uniform; Toby knew he wasnâ€™t coming back, and he implies that fellow soldier Kit Neville will know why.,Tobyâ€™s Room, is an eloquent literary narrative of hardship and resilience, love and betrayal, and anguish and redemption. In unflinching yet elegant prose, Pat Barker captures the enormity of the warâ€™s impactâ€”not only on soldiers at the front but on the loved ones they leave behind.
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Toby's Room