Toby's Room, Paperback/Pat Barker

Barker returns to the First World War and the characters of Life Class, in this dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, Toby's Room is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss.