![]() ![]() spellbinding' Sunday Telegraph 'Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent. Byatt, Daily Telegraph 'Every bit as waveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor' Sunday Times 'Startlingly original. 'A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians' A. The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. ![]() Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. WINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE. The Eye in the Door is the second novel in Pat Barker's classic Regeneration trilogy. ![]()
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