Thanks to Andrew Sharetts of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, I am giving away 3 copies of Toby’s Room.
Book Description:
From Booker Prize winner Pat Barker, a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of the Great War. Admirers of her Regeneration Trilogy as well as fans ofDownton Abbey and War Horse will be enthralled.
With Toby’s Room, a sequel to her widely praised previous novel Life Class, the incomparable Pat Barker confirms her place in the pantheon of Britain’s finest novelists. This indelible portrait of a family torn apart by war focuses on Toby Brooke, a medical student, and his younger sister Elinor. Enmeshed in a web of complicated family relationships, Elinor and Toby are close: some might say too close. But when World War I begins, Toby is posted to the front as a medical officer while Elinor stays in London to continue her fine art studies at the Slade, under the tutelage of Professor Henry Tonks. There, in a startling development based in actual fact, Elinor finds that her drafting skills are deployed to aid in the literal reconstruction of those maimed in combat.
With Toby’s Room, a sequel to her widely praised previous novel Life Class, the incomparable Pat Barker confirms her place in the pantheon of Britain’s finest novelists. This indelible portrait of a family torn apart by war focuses on Toby Brooke, a medical student, and his younger sister Elinor. Enmeshed in a web of complicated family relationships, Elinor and Toby are close: some might say too close. But when World War I begins, Toby is posted to the front as a medical officer while Elinor stays in London to continue her fine art studies at the Slade, under the tutelage of Professor Henry Tonks. There, in a startling development based in actual fact, Elinor finds that her drafting skills are deployed to aid in the literal reconstruction of those maimed in combat.
One day in 1917, Elinor has a sudden premonition that Toby will not return from France. Three weeks later the family receives a telegram informing them that Toby is “Missing, Believed Killed” in Ypres. However, there is no body, and Elinor refuses to accept the official explanation. Then she finds a letter hidden in the lining of Toby’s uniform; Toby knew he wasn’t coming back, and he implies that fellow soldier Kit Neville will know why.
Toby’s Room is an eloquent literary narrative of hardship and resilience, love and betrayal, and anguish and redemption. In unflinching yet elegant prose, Pat Barker captures the enormity of the war’s impact—not only on soldiers at the front but on the loved ones they leave behind.
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About Pat Barker:
PAT BARKER is most recently the author of Life Class, as well as the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize; and The Ghost Road, winner of the Booker Prize; as well as seven other novels. She lives in the north of England.
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many thanks for this fascinating giveaway. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
What a great giveaway! I haven’t read the first book in this series (it is a sequel, right?), but if it’s good, it will stand on its own.
I’d love to get to the bottom of this one. Thanks for the chance to win.
Sounds interesting. I’d like to find out if she ever found her brother! Thanks for the giveaway.
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I LOVE historical fiction and Downton Abbey so I am very excited about this book! Thanks for the chance to win a copy!
I haven’t read many books around the WWI time period, thanks for the intro and chance to win!
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I enjoy books of this time period. Thanks!
Thank you for this book. I loved it!
What a surprise! I had never read anything by Pat Barker until TOBY’S ROOM. It is not simply a novel; this is literature. And what a pleasure it is to read!
I had not read LIFE CLASS. But I loved TOBY’S ROOM anyway. Now I’ll have to do it out of order and read the first book second.
If you are not familiar with Barker but you appreciate fine writing, pick up one of her books. I can vouch for TOBY’S ROOM.
I was one of the winners of this book. I read it but forgot until now to post what I thought of it.
What a surprise! I had never read anything by Pat Barker until TOBY’S ROOM. It is not simply a novel; this is literature. And what a pleasure it is to read!
Although this book is a sequel to LIFE CLASS, I read TOBY’S ROOM first and loved it anyway. Now I’ll have to do it out of order and read the first book second.
If you are not familiar with Barker but you appreciate fine writing, pick up one of her books. I can vouch for TOBY’S ROOM.
Techeditor, I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Haven’t heard of this series befoe