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Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors surrounding his brother's death and his own terrible experiences during the First World War. Meanwhile, Nick and his wife Fran are trying to unite their increasingly fractious young family, despite the discovery of an obscene Victorian drawing which reveals the tragic history of their house and casts a terrifying shadow over the family.
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- Author
- Pat Barker
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 277
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Penguin Group UK, Penguin UK
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141928838
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Patricia Mary W. Barker (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is known for her *Regeneration* Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and for a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with *The Silence of the Girls.*
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