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Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world.
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- Author
- Pat Barker
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 265
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Virago
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780860682837
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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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