Regeneration (novel)
First edition cover
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| Author | Pat Barker |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Regeneration Trilogy |
| Genre | War novel |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
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Publication date
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30 May 1991 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 288 (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 27011391 |
| 823/.914 20 | |
| LC Class | PR6052.A6488 R4 1991 |
| Preceded by | The Man Who Wasn't There |
| Followed by | The Eye in the Door |
Regeneration is a historical and anti-war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991. The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication. It is the first of three novels in the Regeneration Trilogy of novels on the First World War, the other two being The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize in 1995. The novel was adapted into a film by the same name in 1997 by Scottish film director Gillies MacKinnon and starring Jonathan Pryce as Rivers, James Wilby as Sassoon and Jonny Lee Miller as Prior. The film was successful in the UK and Canada, receiving nominations for a number of awards.
The novel explores the experience of British army officers being treated for shell shock during World War I at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh. Inspired by her grandfather's experience of World War I, Barker draws extensively on first person narratives from the period. Using these sources, she created characters based on historical individuals present at the hospital including poets and patients, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, who pioneered treatments of posttraumatic stress disorder during and after World War I. The title of the novel refers to Rivers' research into "nerve regeneration". Barker also includes fictional characters, based on the larger cultural experience of the period, including an officer who grew up in the lower classes, Billy Prior, and his girlfriend and munitionette, Sarah Lumb.
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