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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the second novel in Pat Barkers acclaimed Life Class trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart From the Booker Prize-winning and Womens Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls Heart-rending... Tobys Room anatomises a world where extreme emotion shatters the boundaries of identity, behaviour, gender Independent Once again Barker skilfully moves between past and present, seamlessly weaving fact and fiction into a gripping narrative Sunday Telegraph When Toby is reported Missing, Believed Killed, another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinors world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Tobys room. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Marys Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, Tobys Room is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss. The Life Class trilogy: Life Class Tobys Room Noonday

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the first novel in Pat Barkers acclaimed Life Class trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart From the Booker Prize-winning and Womens Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls Triumphant, inspiring, shattering The Times Barker writes as brilliantly as ever... With great tenderness and insight she conveys a wartime world turned upside down Independent on Sunday Masterly, gripping Penelope Lively Extraordinarily powerful Sunday Telegraph Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonkss studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out and the army wont take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings for one another. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see the world anew - but have his experiences changed him completely? The Life Class trilogy: Life Class Tobys Room Noonday

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The final novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart'Bold, hard-hitting, unforgettable, with luminous and unsparing insight' Independent on Sunday'Barker's command of detail and gift for metaphor are as sharp as ever... Noonday is in the first rank' Mail on Sunday'[There is] no end to her talent in describing how conflicts rupture the soul' Arifa Akbar, IndependentLondon, the Blitz, autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul works as an air-raid warden. As the bombing intensifies, the constant risk of death makes all three of them reach out for quick consolation. Old loves and obsessions re-surface until Elinor is brought face to face with an almost impossible choice. Writing about the Second World War for the first time, Pat Barker brings the besieged and haunted city of London into electrifying life.The Life Class trilogy:Life ClassToby's RoomNoonday