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Pat Barker

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in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, The United Kingdom

May 08, 1943

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Pat Barker is an English writer known for her fiction exploring themes of memory, trauma, and survival. She gained prominence with Union Street (1982), a stark portrayal of working-class women's lives, and later achieved critical acclaim with the Regeneration Trilogy (1991–1995), a series blending history and fiction to examine the psychological impact of World War I. The final book, The Ghost Road (1995), won the Booker Prize. In recent years, she has turned to retelling classical myths from a female perspective, beginning with The Silence of the Girls (2018). Barker's work is widely recognized for its direct and unflinching storytelling. ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 230,803 ratings · 22,817 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 109,710 ratings — published 2018 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Regeneration (Regeneration, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 33,347 ratings — published 1991 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 28,003 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 18,209 ratings — published 1995 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 10,697 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) 3.93 avg rating — 6,467 ratings — published 2024 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Class (Life Class, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 5,373 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toby's Room (Life Class, #2) 3.77 avg rating — 4,907 ratings — published 2012 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, #1-3) 4.37 avg rating — 2,860 ratings — published 1996 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Noonday (Life Class, #3) 3.78 avg rating — 2,032 ratings — published 2015 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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30 votes, 11.7%

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23 votes, 8.9%

Regeneration by Pat Barker, 1991, 256 pages

19 votes, 7.4%

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