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  • Published: 31 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241971284
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99
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Toby's Room




Pat Barker returns to the First World War in this dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Toby's Room, a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship.

When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby's room. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, Toby's Room is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss. Toby's Room is Pat Barker's most powerful novel yet.

Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, which has been filmed, The Eye in the Door, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured the Observer's 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, Life Class, and Toby's Room. She lives in Durham.

  • Published: 31 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241971284
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99
Categories:

About the author

Pat Barker

Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995), which won the Booker Prize, as well as the more recent novels Border Crossing and Double Vision. She lives in Durham.

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Praise for Toby's Room

Magnificent; I finished eagerly wanting to know what happened next, and as I read, I was enjoying, marvelling and learning

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The plot unfurls to a devastating conclusion ... a fine piece of work

Melvyn Bragg, New Statesman

A heart-rending return to the Great War. A superb stylist ... forensically observant and imaginatively sublime

Independent

Dark, painful, yet also tender. It succeeds brilliantly

John Vernon, The New York Times