The Ghost Road

1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care – particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation …

The Ghost Road is the Booker Prize winning account of the devastating final months of the First World War.

The third book in the Regeneration trilogy

About Pat Barker

Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her late thirties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road. The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series.
Details
  • Series: Regeneration
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780141030951
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 131mm
  • Weight: 193g
  • Price: £9.99
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