Throughout all this, he maintains a relationship with his girlfriend Sarah Lumb, whom he met in Regeneration. In the second book, The Eye in the Door, Prior leads a double life in many complicated ways-as a bisexual, Ministry of Munitions employee and friend of a pacifist family, who observes sexual and social class hierarchies from a working-class background, and who struggles against a developing split personality. Sassoon meets Wilfred Owen, and Rivers has some extremely challenging patients, including Billy Prior, who is a central character for the next two books. Its principal subjects are the relationships between Rivers, his patients, and the other men at the hospital, as they attempt to deal with their trauma and the overarching philosophical and ethical questions in their treatment and past experiences. The first book, Regeneration, mainly takes place at Craiglockhart. In general they mix serious philosophical discussions with fascinating characters and an in-depth portrait of wartime England. They explore the effects of war on the minds of soldiers and civilians, the ethics of psychological treatment, the spectrum of sexuality, and different forms of duality. Although the books are fictional, they feature several historical figures such as William Rivers, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Lewis Yealland, Lewis Carroll, as well as many, many more. This is the opening, real life premise of The Regeneration Trilogy, by British author Pat Barker, which takes place in 19 in Britain and France. William Rivers in the hope that Rivers would "cure" him of his delusions and make him fit to be sent back to the front. There, among the many other shell-shocked soldiers, he was assigned to Dr.
His friend Robert Graves persuaded the Medical Board not to court-martial him, and instead Sassoon was sent, to his disappointment, to Craiglockhart, a psychiatric hospital in Edinburgh. Siegfried Sassoon was a decorated lieutenant in World War I before he published this letter of protest and declared that he would no longer take part in the war.
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