The cover of Pat Barker's book Regeneration. A black and white photo of an alley of tree trunks fills the entire background. On this, objects and symbols are placed haphazardly - the baked torso of a man, a sprig of green and a bird's wing. The effect is highly disturbing

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   #AdventOfBooks 2024 day 5: Regeneration by Pat Barker #Bookstodon

   The (trueish) story of a mental institution in Scotland during WWI, where the resident psychiatrist treats PTSD soldiers, with the ultimate goal of getting them healed enough to return to the war.

   The story roughly tracks (real) war poet Siegfried Sassoon's time at the hospital, after he's sent there for an anti-war protest, and chronicles his relationship with Wilfred Owen, and the genesis of Owen's *Anthem for Doomed Youth*