Regeneration - Pat Barker Reviews

Pat Barker has developed something of a reputation for novels based around The Great War. Having heard much from Mrs SWSt about the Regeneration Trilogy, I was keen to get started and see how the first in the trilogy (Regeneration) measured up. Rather than focussing on the War itself, Regeneration concentrates on a number of soldiers ...  Read the complete review

Regeneration by Pat Barker is a moving and insightful novel about the First World War. Loosely based on real life events, it is set in Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh, a hospital that looked after soldiers that were suffering mental health problems due to the things they had seen and experienced on the front line. The main character ...  Read the complete review

‘Regeneration’ by Pat Barker is set over four months in a psychiatric hospital at Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, in 1917, which attracted me to the novel as it is close to the village where I live and I find the subject matter of the first world war and its psychology interesting. The novel has many interrelated themes concerning the memory ...  Read the complete review