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Radio 4,6 mins

"The novel's wider concerns with the effects of the war are encoded in the hes, shes, these and theys of everyday language"

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Dr Sarah Dillon explores the way Pat Barker uses pronouns to reinforce the central themes of her novel Regeneration, which is set during the First World War.

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