The Eye in the Door

By Pat Barker

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Eye in the Door is a 1993 novel by Pat Barker, the second book of her Regeneration Trilogy about the First World War. It won the Guardian Fiction Prize. Set in London in 1918, it follows Billy Prior, a working-class officer with a damaged memory who works for military intelligence tracking pacifists. As wartime paranoia targets conscientious objectors and gay men, Prior's divided loyalties and blackouts bring him back to the psychiatrist W.H.R. Rivers.

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