The Eye in the Door

Name: The Eye in the Door
Author: Pat Barker

by Pat Barker

A soldier's repressed homosexuality emerges amid espionage suspicions during wartime 1917

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Pat Barker

British novelist whose Regeneration Trilogy about World War One shell shock is among the greatest British war fiction. The Ghost Road won the Booker Prize in 1995. Her subsequent work has continued to explore war, trauma, and memory.

More by Pat Barker

RegenerationWWI shell-shock patients and a psychologist confront trauma in an experimental hospital
The Ghost RoadWWI trilogy concludes with ghosts, the dead, and a psychologist's final reckoning
Another WorldTwo families carry the generational trauma of a wartime romance across 50 years
NoondayA woman confronts buried family secrets from the Second World War era