In Craiglockhart war hospital, Dr William Rivers attempts to restore the sanity of officers from World War I. When Siegfried Sassoon publishes his declaration of protest against the war, the authoriti
Winner of the Guardian Fiction PrizeWinner of the Northern Electric Special Arts PrizeIt is 1918, and Prior is in London working as an intelligence officer. His concern is the enemy within, though a c
This novel challenges our assumptions about relationships between the classes, doctors and patients, men and women, and men and men. It completes the author's exploration of the First World War, and i
Maurice is born into a privileged way of life, conforming to social conventions, yet he finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, a Cambridge friend, and Alec, the gamekeeper
