Pat Barker
British novelist whose Regeneration Trilogy about World War One shell shock is among the greatest British war fiction. The Ghost Road won the Booker Prize in 1995. Her subsequent work has continued to explore war, trauma, and memory.
Works
- RegenerationWWI shell-shock patients and a psychologist confront trauma in an experimental hospital
- The Eye in the DoorA soldier's repressed homosexuality emerges amid espionage suspicions during wartime 1917
- The Ghost RoadWWI trilogy concludes with ghosts, the dead, and a psychologist's final reckoning
- Another WorldTwo families carry the generational trauma of a wartime romance across 50 years
- NoondayA woman confronts buried family secrets from the Second World War era