Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers’s job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780141030937
ISBN 10: 0141030933