Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties when she took a
short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and
exploring the lives of working class women she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five
years later she has published fifteen novels including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy
been made a CBE for services to literature and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize
and the UK's highest literary honour the Booker Prize. She lives in Durham and her latest
novel is The Silence of the Girls.
