Publishers Weekly, December 15th, 2003
Violence haunts Pat Barker's fiction. It darkens the lives of the women in Union Street, the book that established her reputation in 1983 as a working-class, feminist author. It stalks the prostitutes in Blow Your House Down in the shape of a serial killer. It provides the gruesome memories that bedevil the shell-shocked soldiers of her acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, which climaxed with the Booker Award-winning The Ghost Road in 1996. Even her two most recent novels, Another World and Border Crossing, whose characters seem more secure, seethe with the anxiety of past crimes whose consequenc...
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