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Ghosts everywhere. Even the living were only ghosts in the making.

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

April 7, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the third and final part of the Regeneration trilogy which culminated in this novel winning the Booker Prize. I think ultimately the second novel is the better, and best of the three, but I won’t fault the Booker Prize for recognizing the quality of the series, and probably wish it had done more of this in its time (well, I guess it kind of did this with Paul Scott’s Staying On) (Anyway!). In this third volume we meet back with Billy Prior who […]

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vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:177 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road ·
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World War I Novels Never End Happily

October 4, 2018 by ElCicco 5 Comments

#cbr10bingo This is the End The Ghost Road is the third and final volume in Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy. Set during WWI in England, the trilogy tells the story of both real and fictional characters trying to make sense of a senseless war. The first book focused on the patients at Craiglockhart Hospital, an asylum for soldiers suffering from shell shock and being treated so as to be sent back to the front. Book two centered on the fictional character Billy Prior, a soldier recovering […]

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ElCicco's CBR10 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, historical fiction, Pat Barker, ReadWomen, Regeneration Trilogy, The Ghost Road, WWI ·
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