New novel from Pat Barker, exploring the atrocity of war and how two men struggle to come to terms with it. Barker's }Regeneration{ trilogy has sold over 800,000 copies. Few English writers can now match Barker's narrative poise, and she remains almost peerless in her articulation of the unspoken }Observer Returning to Afghanistan after his photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly at peace with itself.
