Posted to the Usual Suspects:
We just listened to Pat Barker's Another World, ~7.5 hours, during vacation driving. The reader was really good, to my American ears, doing different gradations of Scottish accents, thicker for the less educated and moderated for the younger or more educated. It has two threads of narrative that Barker might have woven together more, but each thread was compelling on its own. It's set in the late 20th century so a WWI veteran can still be alive, and WWI is throughout the book, though not its only focus as in Barker's Regeneration trilogy. It's a good bridge for me to non-Regeneration (non-WWI) Barker books.