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Set in London in 1918, The Eye In The Door is an intense and profoundly intelligent examination of the effects of war, continuing the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in Regeneration."Gripping, moving, beautifully constructed and profoundly intelligent." - Independent On SundayLondon, 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...Writing in the Sunday Times, Peter Kemp said, "In the climate of exhaustion and hysteria amid which the war is wearing to its close, pressures to fall into line become fierce and take ugly forms. At the forefront of her story, Barker places figures especially menaced by this: pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexuals...a sequel every bit as unwaveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor".The E

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Author

Pat Barker, Pat Barker

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd : [distributor] Penguin Books Ltd

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141906447

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, War & Military Fiction

Rating

4.06 / 5 (199 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13