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Title: Toby’s Room
Author: BARKER PAT
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 20/03/2013
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Toby has always protected his sister, Elinor, their bond closer than they can acknowledge. Then comes war, and in 1917 on a French battlefield Toby is reported ‘Missing, Believed Killed’. Elinor, an artist now involved in helping surgeons reconstruct the faces of injured soldiers, is determined to find out what happened and writes to the horrifically wounded Kit Neville, the last man to see Toby alive. But Neville is in hospital, himself damaged beyond recognition, and he will not talk – until Elinor asks fellow soldier and her former lover Paul Tarrant for help. But are some truths better left concealed?
‘A heart-rending return to the Great War. A superb stylist . . . forensically observant and imaginatively sublime’ Independent
‘Once again Barker skilfully moves between past and present, seamlessly weaving fact and fiction into a gripping narrative’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Strong, truthful and beautifully controlled. Magnificent’ Saga
‘Dark, painful, yet also tender. It succeeds brilliantly’ John Vernon, New York Times
‘Raw, visceral . . . A fiercely honest account of the effects of war’ Daily Express
‘Briskly paced, so tenderly written it’s almost unbearable in parts’ Country Life
ISBN: 9780141042206
Pages: 272