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Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
Claude Choules, last known combat veteran of the first world war.
I finished reading Pat Barker's The Ghost Road (1995) yesterday. It is less of a novel than its predecessors, Regeneration (1991) and The Eye in the Door (1993); what it is, it becomes clear only in the last few pages, is a ritual, a sending-on, an exorcism. There was a need for it. I was reading about events still tied by memory to the living world.
They have gone on now.
I finished reading Pat Barker's The Ghost Road (1995) yesterday. It is less of a novel than its predecessors, Regeneration (1991) and The Eye in the Door (1993); what it is, it becomes clear only in the last few pages, is a ritual, a sending-on, an exorcism. There was a need for it. I was reading about events still tied by memory to the living world.
They have gone on now.
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The film was remarkably faithful to the book and shot in the sepia tones of an old photoalbum. If you like the book, you will like the film, provided you also like Audrey Tautou who plays the main role.