Thirty years after winning the Booker for The Ghost Road, Pat Barker discusses feeling like an outsider, writing about men, and the under-representation of working-class voices
Pat Barker
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Pat Barker won the Man Booker Prize in 1995 for 'The Ghost Road'. She was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her 40s, after taking a short writing course taught by Angela Carter
She has now published 16 novels, including her masterful Regeneration trilogy, and has been made a CBE for services to literature. Her 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, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won the Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy continues that story.
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The Ghost Road
Winner of The Booker Prize 1995
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- Pat Barker
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- Viking
The third volume of Pat Barker’s trilogy, which follows the fortunes of shell-shocked British army officers towards the end of the First World War
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