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Regeneration

AuthorPat Barker

NarratorPeter Firth

SeriesRegeneration Trilogy, Book 1

Duration7h 35m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels, LGBTQ+ Literature

Key StageA Level

PublisherChivers

VersionUnabridged

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The first book in the 'Regeneration' trilogy. In Craiglockhart war hospital, Doctor William Rivers attempts to restore the sanity of officers whose experiences of the First World War have caused them to break down. When Siegfried Sassoon publishes his declaration of protest against the war, the authorities decide to have him declared mentally ill and send him to Craiglockhart. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.

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