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About the Book

It is 1917 and Elinor Brooke, a young painter, is studying art in London while her beloved brother Toby serves on the front as a medical officer. When Toby goes missing and is presumed dead, the devastated Elinor refuses to accept it. A letter she finds hidden among his belongings reveals that Toby knew he wasn't coming back and implies that his friend, medic Kit Neville, knows why. But Kit has been horribly disfigured and is reeling from shell shock. While Elinor tries to piece together the mystery of what happened to her brother, she uses her drawing skills to aid in the surgical reconstruction of those who have suffered unspeakable losses--their faces, their memories, their very minds. Masterfully written and daringly ambitious, Toby's Room explores at all levels of it means to be human.

About the Author :
PAT BARKER is the author of sixteen novels, beginning with her working class masterpiece Union Street in 1982. Her Regeneration Trilogy novels set in the First World War was awarded the Booker Prize and has been praised as one of the greatest historical novels in British literature. Her last novel, The Silence of the Girls, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Prize in the UK, and won the Independent Bookshop Award in 2019. She was made a CBE (Commader of the Order of the British Empire) in 2000. She lives in Durham, England. A British voice actress with over a decade of experience, Nicola Barber has won two Earphone Awards from AudioFile Magazine for her audio book narration and has recorded national radio spots for Verizon Wireless, Virgin Airlines, and Hilton Hotels, as well as a national TV commercial for Oatmeal Crisp. She specializes in commercials, corporate videos, audiobooks, phone systems, and training videos. Nicola has narrated over a dozen audio books for authors such as Barbara Taylor Bradford and Maureen Johnson.

Review :
"A novel about how art attempts to depict the horrors of World War One." -- "Boston Globe" "A tantalizing and moving return to wartime London." -- "Washington Post" "Art and war are the real fusion in this novel, and Barker offers fascinating meditations on the interrelation between the two...A powerful book." -- "San Francisco Chronicle" "Barker has shown again that she is not only a fine chronicler of war but of human nature." -- "Independent (London)" "Barker is so deft handling history, from battlefield scenes to surgery in Queen's Hospital, that she has few peers." -- "Cleveland Plain-Dealer" "Barker writes about love, loss, and survival, themes that are supported well by Nicola Barber's able narration. Barber imbues Elinor with a spirit of humanity that makes her easier to empathize with, particularly in her grief...The vocal differentiation is excellent, particularly the--at times, uncomfortable--voicing of the young man who lost his nose in the war." -- "AudioFile" "Images are scrupulously vivid, and the plot has real momentum." -- "Daily Telegraph (London)" "No one evokes England in all its stiff-upper-lip gritty wartime privation like Barker. She is...determined to render an honest portrayal of war. She will not allow us to sweep it out of sight." -- "Miami (FL) Herald" "The precision of Ms. Barker's writing shows her again to be one of the finest chroniclers of both the physical and psychological disfigurements exacted by the First World War." -- "Wall Street Journal" "The writing is lucid and often beautiful." -- "Entertainment Weekly" "Unforgettable...Toby's Room takes large risks...And it succeeds brilliantly." -- "New York Times Book Review"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780792789338
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 0792789334
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2012
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 2 Life Class Trilogy Lib/E


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