Book 1 in 'The Regeneration triology' This novel is not only a vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War, it is a multi-layered exploration of all wars, challenging assumptions about the relationship between doctors and patients, between men and women, and between men and men It centres on a real-life encounter that occurred at Craiglockhart in 1917 between W H R Rivers, an army psychiatrist and Siegfried Sassoon The third book in this trilogy was the 1995 Booker Prize winner