Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an English writer and historian. She published her first novel, Union Street, in the 1980s and has since won critical acclaim for her First World War series, the Regeneration trilogy, which documents the wartime experiences of the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, and the fictional protagonist, Lt. Billy Prior. The final book in the trilogy, Ghost Road, won the Booker Prize upon its publication. May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... The 1980s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1980 and 1989. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machine guns, and poison gas. ... Regeneration is a prize-winning novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991. ... Siegfried Sassoon, 1916 Siegfried Loraine Sassoon MC (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was an English poet and author. ... Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was an English poet. ... Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). ... William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864-1922) was an anthropologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work with shell-shocked soldiers during World War I. Rivers most famous patient was the poet, Siegfried Sassoon. ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in...

Barker is married and lives in Durham, England. Durham (IPA: locally, in RP) is a small city in the north east of England. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK...

Books

• Union Street (1982)
• Blow Your House Down (1984)
• The Century's Daughter (also known as Liza's England; 1986)
• The Man Who Wasn't There (1989)
• Regeneration (1990)
• The Eye In The Door (1993)
• The Ghost Road (1995)
• Another World (1998)
• Border Crossing (2001)
• Double Vision (2003)

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External links

• Pat Barker at www.contemporarywriters.com