Life Class - Softcover

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From Pat Barker, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Ghost Road, comes Life Class, a powerful and unforgettable story of art and war.

In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class, and Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke. But Paul's new life as a volunteer for the Belgian Red Cross is a world away from his days at the Slade, and by the time he returns from Ypres, Paul must confront the fact that life, and love, will never be the same again. Pat Barker delivers an arresting, devastating and intensely visual novel in Life Class.

'Sharply written and elegantly constructed...breathtaking' D.J. Taylor, Guardian

'Barker is excellent at capturing the insecurities and intense but random love affairs of youth ... Thoughtful, ambiguous and powerful' Sunday Telegraph

'A compelling read' Literary Review

'Masterly, gripping' Penelope Lively, Independent

'Triumphant, shattering, inspiring' The Times

Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, which has been filmed, The Eye in the Door, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured the Observer's 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, Life Class, and Toby's Room. She lives in Durham.

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