The Ghost Road Pat Barker by Pat Barker 9780142180600, 0142180602, B00F3KXONC instant download after payment.

The Ghost Road is the third & final instalment in Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, which follows the fortunes of shell-shocked British army officers towards the end of the First World War.

"Harrowing, original, unforgettable."  -  The Independent

In 1918, Billy Prior experiences a late-summer idyll, some days of perfect beauty, before the final battles in a war that has destroyed most of his generation. In London, Prior’s psychologist, William Rivers, tends to his new patients, more young men whose lives and minds have been shattered. And remembers the primitive society on Eddystone Island where he studied as an anthropologist before the war.

"An extraordinary tour de force. I'm convinced that the trilogy will win recognition as one of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction."   -   Jonathan Coe 

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction in 1996.

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.