Regeneration is the first book in the author's trilogy about WW 1, the others being The Eye in the Door and Ghost Road, all exceptionally forceful novels. It's a reconstruction of the effects of shell shock, amongst other things, based on the well-documented historical facts of Siegfried Sassoon's relationship with his psychiatrist, W Rivers, in 1916 in Scotland. The only fictional character being Billy Prior, the hero of the second two books. Although daunting for the impressionable, this trilogy is a brilliant evocation of an event which never ceases to fascinate.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 19 June 2003 ) |
