| Author | Pat Barker |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton |
| Release date | 5 Jul 2007 |
| Pages | 248 |
| Isbn | 0-241-14297-0 |
| Preceded by | Double Vision |
| Followed by | Toby's Room |
Life Class is a novel by Pat Barker released in 2007. The novel is about students at the Slade School of Art in the first years of the twentieth century, one of whom volunteers to serve in a front line hospital during the First World War.[1]
David Boyd Haycock's A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (Old Street Publishing, 2009) presents the remarkable "true story" that lies behind Barker's novel.