The Eye In The Door Pat Barker by Pat Barker 9780141906447, 0141906448 instant download after payment.

Set in London in 1918, The Eye In The Door is an intense and profoundly intelligent examination of the effects of war, continuing the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in Regeneration.

"Gripping, moving, beautifully constructed and profoundly intelligent."  -  Independent On Sunday

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…

Writing in the Sunday Times, Peter Kemp said, "In the climate of exhaustion and hysteria amid which the war is wearing to its close, pressures to fall into line become fierce and take ugly forms. At the forefront of her story, Barker places figures especially menaced by this: pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexuals...a sequel every bit as unwaveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor".

The Eye In The Door was awarded the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize.

Pat Barker began her literary career in her 40s, after taking a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has now published 16 novels, including her masterful Regeneration trilogy, and has been made a CBE for services to literature. Her novel The Silence of the Girls began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won the Independent Bookshop Award 2019.