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488:“I think the whole British psyche is suffering from the contradiction you see in Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, where the war is both terrible and never to be repeated and at the same time experiences derived from it are given enormous value," Barker told
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it, whereas if you are writing about a contemporary issue on the nose, sometimes all you do is activate people's prejudices. I think the historical novel can be a backdoor into the present which is very valuable."
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writers' workshop. Carter liked the book, telling Barker "if they can't sympathise with the women you're creating, then sod their fucking luck," and suggested she send the manuscript to
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stated about her writing, "You don't go to her for fine language, you go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a clear eye, steadily facing the history of our world".
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women whose lives are circumscribed by poverty and violence. For ten years, the manuscript was rejected by publishers as too "bleak and depressing." Barker met novelist
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in 2003, but chose to stay with her grandmother "because of love of her, and because my stepfather didn't warm to me, nor me to him." Her grandparents ran a
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1364:"Toby's Room, By Pat Barker"
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533:The New York Review of Books
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955:Kemp, Peter (1 July 2007).
840:"Dispatches from the front"
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1007:Retrieved 17 January 2008.
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857:Stivers, Valerie (2018).
771:The Women of Troy trilogy
610:Women's Prize for Fiction
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1110:. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
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778:The Silence of the Girls
684:The Man Who Wasn't There
615:The Silence of the Girls
552:In 1983, Barker won the
500:The Regeneration Trilogy
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2479:The Inheritance of Loss
2330:The God of Small Things
1928:The Siege of Krishnapur
1850:Something to Answer For
1043:Contemporary Literature
170:Patricia Mary W. Barker
3065:A Month in the Country
3021:The Condition of Muzak
2869:Guardian Fiction Prize
2580:The Sense of an Ending
2189:The Remains of the Day
1812:The Best of the Booker
1679:The Century's Daughter
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672:The Century's Daughter
562:Guardian Fiction Prize
560:. In 1993 she won the
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542:Booker–McConnell Prize
380:The Century's Daughter
75:Patricia Mary W. Drake
2270:Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1819:The Golden Man Booker
1072:"North Country Women"
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1019:"Novelist Pat Barker"
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312:English working class
273:in Stockton-on-Tees.
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3207:The Devil's Own Work
2895:The Dear Green Place
2688:Lincoln in the Bardo
2562:The Finkler Question
1963:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1672:Blow Your House Down
1226:Barker, Pat (2008).
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664:Blow Your House Down
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2598:Bring Up the Bodies
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2069:Midnight's Children
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1943:The Conservationist
1700:The Eye in the Door
1260:"The Ghost Road: 9"
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1037:Nixon, Rob (2004).
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3000:Friends and Romans
2915:A Song and a Dance
2734:Girl, Woman, Other
2446:The Line of Beauty
2386:The Blind Assassin
1865:The Elected Member
1791:Recipients of the
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1283:The New York Times
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1182:"Warring fictions"
1108:Macmillan overview
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348:Stanley & Iris
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