Toby's Room

Toby's Room

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 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2012-10-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385524360

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Doubleday
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2012-10-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385524360

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