Pat Barker
PAT BARKER is the author of sixteen novels, beginning with her masterpiece Union Street in 1982. Her Regeneration Trilogy novels, set in the First World War, were awarded the Booker Prize and praised as some of the greatest historical novels in British literature. Her novel The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Prize in the UK and won the Independent Bookshop Award in 2019. She was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in...See more
PAT BARKER is the author of sixteen novels, beginning with her masterpiece Union Street in 1982. Her Regeneration Trilogy novels, set in the First World War, were awarded the Booker Prize and praised as some of the greatest historical novels in British literature. Her novel The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Prize in the UK and won the Independent Bookshop Award in 2019. She was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2000. She lives in Durham, England. See less
Pat Barker's Featured Books
Pat Barker book reviews
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Regeneration
Unreservedly recommended
This is actually the first book of what became a trilogy; ideally, one should read them all -- this book first, next, The Eye in the Door, and finally, The Ghost Road. Barker has taken a kernel of ... Read More
