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The Eye in the Door

By: Pat Barker
Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

The masterful second novel in Pat Barker's classic Regeneration trilogy - from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls.

Winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize.

London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be. The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it.

©2021 Pat Barker (P)2021 Penguin Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction War & Military War Heartfelt Military

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Critic reviews

"Spellbinding and startlingly original." (Sunday Telegraph)

"Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent." (Independent on Sunday)

"A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians." (A. S. Byatt, Daily Telegraph)
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Simon Russell Beale is truly a maestro. What a stunning piece of storytelling. I will listen to this again and again.

Beautiful

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An extraordinary novel ….. beautifully written and superbly narrated. A joy to have listened to. Thank you.

Superbly narrated ….

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I enjoyed it so much,I listened to it twice. The voice changed fluidly and subtlety.

The opportunity to visualise each character and engage in their lives.

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