The Ghost Road

By Pat Barker

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Ghost Road is a 1995 novel by Pat Barker that won the Booker Prize. It is the final book of her Regeneration Trilogy about the First World War. Billy Prior returns to the Western Front in the last months of the war, serving alongside the poet Wilfred Owen. Meanwhile in London, the psychiatrist W.H.R. Rivers, ill with fever, remembers his earlier anthropological fieldwork in Melanesia, where a culture of headhunting has been suppressed by colonial rule.

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