![]() ![]() Prior is an attempted complexity of sexual need, childhood trauma, and father issues. The Eye in the Door (Penguin Books, 1994) follows several strands of plot arc or character development, and the deepening of the understanding of Billy Prior’s psychological field is one of these strands. Prior has left Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, and we meet him again, early on, in a somewhat grubby and clandestine sexual encounter with one Captain Charles Manning, also of the Ministry of Munitions. ![]() Rivers’ appearance, a little later in this offering, does absorb the reading focus with his presence). We find that the erstwhile Second-Lieutenant Prior (now plain Billy Prior of the Ministry of Munitions, London) is more or less the central character of the continued story (more or less because Dr W. It is 1918: several months on from the events depicted in the first of Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy. ![]()
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