by Pat Barker · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141042206
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«Toby's Room» is the historical novel by Pat Barker, published by Penguin in paperback (272 pages, in English).
In World War I, Elinor, an artist who helps reconstruct the faces of wounded soldiers, tries to find out what happened to her brother Toby, missing in France. She turns to her former lover Paul Tarrant and to Kit Neville, the last person to see Toby alive; but Neville, disfigured, remains silent. A secret has weighed on the siblings since 1912.
Second installment of the Life Class trilogy; originally published in 2012 by Hamish Hamilton and nominated for the Walter Scott Prize in 2013.
For fans of historical and literary fiction set in World War I, with an interest in art and identity.
Dame Patricia Mary W. Barker, is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is known for her Regeneration Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and, more recently, a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with The Silence of the Girls in 2018.
