The Eye in the Door

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 280, [2 (blank)]. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket illustration by Irene von Treskow (priced £14.99 to front flap).

Gently rubbed to dust jacket edges, else Fine.

Winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize. The second volume in Barker's 'Regeneration' trilogy, about British soldiers traumatized by World War I trench warfare and the methods employed by psychiatrist William Rivers (a historical figure), to treat them. Regeneration (1991), the first volume in the series, was made into a film by Gillies MacKinnon in 1997, starring Jonathan Pryce and James Wilby. The Ghost Road (1995), the final novel in the trilogy, won the Booker Prize for Fiction. "One of the richest and most rewarding works of fiction of recent times." –The Times Literary Supplement