Regeneration
A war novel set in a hospital, where the doctor's job is to make men well enough to return.
Craiglockhart War Hospital, 1917. Siegfried Sassoon has published a declaration against the war and been sent to be treated rather than court-martialled; W. H. R. Rivers is the psychiatrist whose job is to make damaged men well enough to go back. Barker’s novel is set almost entirely away from the front and is the more disturbing for it, because the question is what the doctor is curing men for. First of a trilogy.
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Alice Winn
Regeneration is a war book that’s not really set in the war. I seem to remember Pat Barker saying that writing from the perspective of this doctor, Dr Rivers, who had also never been to war felt like a very honest place to start from.
Interview · April 2023
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