Pat Barker lives in Durham.Is Pat Barker a feminist or a realist novelist? Barker’s early novels, Union Street (1982), Blow Your House Down (1984) and Liza’s England (1986), all focus on working-class women, victims of poverty and violence, factory workers and prostitutes: ‘women who have got short shrift both in literature and in life’. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. Thirty-five years later, she has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize.Her last novel, The Silence of the Girls, began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing, she sent her fiction out. Biography: Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter.'One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation' Guardian 'Brilliant, intense and subtle' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls, Regeneration is a powerfully moving portrait of the deep legacy of human trauma in the First World War.Ĭraiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers.
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