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Life Class | Pat Barker

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Life Class is the first novel in Pat Barker's Life Class Trilody - a powerful and unforgettable story of art and war Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's 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 won't 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? 'Triumphant, shattering, inspiring'The Times 'Barker writes as brilliantly as ever... with great tenderness and insight she conveys a wartime world turned upside down'Independent on Sunday 'Vigorous, masterly, gripping'Penelope Lively, Independent 'Extraordinarily powerful' Sunday Telegraph Other titles in the trilogy: Toby's Room Noonday

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LaurenAsh

Life Class | Pat Barker

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Moray_Reads

Life Class | Pat Barker

so-so

What a strange book to rate. There are some things that Barker achieves so well, capturing the contrast between the banality and the horror of war, using letters to express the distance in place and feeling between those at home and those at the front. And yet there isn't anything that wasn't done better in Regeneration. The problem lies with the characters, they just don't have the life and soul so powerfully present in the earlier trilogy

Moray_Reads I tell a lie, there is one thing that is better: she's stopped littering her speech with italics to indicate emphasis. That drove me CRAZY! 7y

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cleoh

Life Class | Pat Barker

As lovely as my Easter holidays were, it's essay time again 😭 on the bright side, in two essays and one exam, I'll be freeeee! Except the exam isn't until June and I have an inordinate amount of time to study for it 🙈

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