Investigating further, Prior discovers that Spragge works for the Ministry of Munitions. In Spragge’s version of events, the plot was Beattie’s idea. The idea that Beattie would be involved in an assassination plot strikes Prior as unlikely, and as he interviews her, Prior begins to suspect that she has been framed.īeattie claims that she was asked to participate in the assassination plot by would-be deserter Lionel Spragge. As a child, Prior briefly lived with Beattie, and her daughter Hettie was his close friend and, briefly, girlfriend. Prior is sent to interview Beattie Roper, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for her involvement in a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George. Although the worst of his symptoms are over, Prior experiences episodes of memory loss.

The war is still rumbling on, and Prior has been assigned to a Ministry of Munitions intelligence unit investigating the activities of pacifists in the U.K. The novel opens as Billy Prior is released from Craiglockhart Military Hospital, where he has been treated for shell shock by the brilliant but neurotic Dr. The trilogy’s third volume, The Ghost Road, won the 1995 Booker Prize, and the trilogy as a whole is considered a landmark of contemporary British fiction. William Rivers, the main characters in Regeneration, also return. The Eye in the Door focuses on the fictional Billy Prior, a minor character from the trilogy’s first volume, Regeneration the real-life figures Siegfried Sassoon and Dr. The Eye in the Door (1993), a novel by British writer Pat Barker, is the second volume in her Regeneration trilogy, which examines the effects of shell shock (PTSD) on British soldiers during the First World War.

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