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Pat Barker


Born
in Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
May 08, 1943

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Pat Barker, CBE, FRSL was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943. She was educated at the London School of Economics and has been a teacher of history and politics.

Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy Regeneration; The Eye in the Door, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize; and The Ghost Road, winner of the Booker Prize; as well as seven other novels. She's married and lives in Durham, England.
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Average rating: 3.92 · 206,133 ratings · 20,093 reviews · 27 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Silence of the Girls (W...

3.90 avg rating — 97,998 ratings — published 2018 — 71 editions
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Regeneration (Regeneration,...

4.02 avg rating — 31,993 ratings — published 1991 — 83 editions
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The Women of Troy (Women of...

3.83 avg rating — 23,553 ratings — published 2021 — 18 editions
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The Ghost Road (Regeneratio...

4.09 avg rating — 17,805 ratings — published 1995 — 49 editions
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The Eye in the Door (Regene...

4.02 avg rating — 10,297 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
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Life Class (Life Class, #1)

3.61 avg rating — 5,139 ratings — published 2007 — 39 editions
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Toby's Room (Life Class, #2)

3.77 avg rating — 4,770 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
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The Regeneration Trilogy (R...

4.37 avg rating — 2,776 ratings — published 1996 — 29 editions
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Noonday (Life Class, #3)

3.78 avg rating — 1,948 ratings — published 2015 — 22 editions
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Border Crossing

3.55 avg rating — 2,047 ratings — published 2001 — 21 editions
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The Silence of the Girls The Women of Troy The Voyage Home
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Regeneration The Eye in the Door The Ghost Road
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Life Class Toby's Room Noonday
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“It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.”
Pat Barker

“We’re going to survive–our songs, our stories. They’ll never be able to forget us. Decades after the last man who fought at Troy is dead, their sons will remember the songs their Trojan mothers sang to them. We’ll be in their dreams–and in their worst nightmares too.”
Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.”
Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

Polls

November New School Poll

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 1962, 220 pages
 
  57 votes, 21.9%

 
  55 votes, 21.2%

I, Claudius by Robert Graves, 1934, 468 pages
 
  43 votes, 16.5%

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, 1944, 174 pages
 
  32 votes, 12.3%

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 1950, 359 pages
 
  30 votes, 11.5%

 
  23 votes, 8.8%

Regeneration by Pat Barker, 1991, 256 pages
 
  20 votes, 7.7%

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