However one particular sensational libel case stands out. The varied attitudes towards because of the strains of wartime have been well documented. There is also a window on one of the more bizarre incidents which took place in Britain, which would be entirely unbelievable, if it wasn’t true. Barker describes the lives of those opposing the war, pacifists and those sheltering deserters and those contemplating more drastic measures. She uses Prior, unfit to return to France, working for military intelligence and having affairs with men and women to take us round what is happening.
Barker focuses on the maelstrom of opinion, debate and misinformation that comes with a society at war. Dr Rivers is now in London (as is Prior) and we are plunged into a society struggling with the consequences of war and some of the hysteria that goes with it. One of the fictional characters from Regeneration, Billy Prior, is also central to this novel.
We have moved on to early 1918 and the war is still in the balance. As previously Barker does an excellent job of weaving fact and fiction together. The second book in the trilogy just as good and it helps a great deal to have read the first.
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