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Historical Fiction · DarkA psychiatrist remembers a Melanesian island while his patient returns to the trenches
The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
1995288 pagesModerate readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 1995
The final book of the Regeneration Trilogy
The Ghost Road is the third novel in the Regeneration Trilogy. Billy Prior goes back to the trenches in 1918 while the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers works in London and recalls his anthropological fieldwork in Melanesia. It won the 1995 Booker Prize.
More about this book
Who
Billy Prior and Dr W. H. R. Rivers.
World
England, the Western Front and a Melanesian island.
What makes it different
It ends a trilogy that mixes real figures with invented ones.
Feel
Sombre and vivid.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Ghost RoadWikipedia