When Pat Barker was published in 2002, it was the first study to investigate this award-winning and popular writer's fiction in a sustained way. This updated second edition coincides with the centenary of the First World War, a major preoccupation from Liza's England through the Regeneration Trilogyto Toby's Room. Many of Barker's stories balance on the serrated edges of the military experience as she depicts it, to include bombs, bullets and bayonets...