Pat Barker

Pat Barker is an English novelist whose fiction centres on memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is best known for the Regeneration Trilogy, set during the First World War, which begins with Regeneration and continues through The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road, all published in the 1990s. More recently she has turned to the Trojan War in the Women of Troy books, starting with The Silence of the Girls in 2018. She has won many awards for her fiction.