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Written by Pat Barker - Audio book performed by Russell Boulter - Unabridged Fiction - 6 RETAIL EDITION COMPACT DISC - 7 Hours, 55 minutes

Publisher, BBC Audiobooks America (January 2008)

NOTE: RETAIL EDITIONS are packaged in attractive, compact cardboard, jewel-case or DVD shrink-wrapped boxes, with full-color art.

In the spring of 1914, a group of young students gather in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him. Pat Barker is unrivaled in her ability to convey simple, moving human truths. Her skill in relaying the harrowing experience of modern warfare is matched by the depth of insight she brings to the experience of love and the morality of art in a time of war. Life Class is one of her genuine masterpieces.

About the Author: Pat Barker is one of England's most important contemporary novelists. Union St, her first novel, was published by Virago in 1982 to huge critical acclaim. Barker won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1993 and the Booker Prize in 1995. She lives in Durham.

About the Performer: Russell Boulter has been seen on stage in Madness of George Dubya, Macbeth and Star Quality, while his many television appearances include Judge John Deed, EastEnders, Murder In Suburbia, Merseybeat, A & E, Where The Heart Is, Casualty, The Bill, and Heartbeat.