Patricia Mary W. Barker (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is known for her Regeneration Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and for a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with The Silence of the Girls.
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Fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, World War, 1914-1918, Fiction, historical, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, war & military, Literature, English Poets, Great britain, fiction, Large type books, Psychiatrists, Divorced people, fiction, Journalists, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Poets, Soldiers, War neuroses, Widows, fiction, Anthropologists, Anthropologists, fiction, Divorced men, FamiliesPlaces
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W. H. R. Rivers (1864-1922), Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), Siegfried Sassoon (1888-1967), Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL22443A
- GoodReads: 4000
- ISNI: 0000000114531791
- IMDb: nm0054966
- Library of Congress Names: n83178568
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): RAVV042619
- VIAF: 98651598
- Wikidata: Q61198
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q61198
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- Patricia Mary W. Barker
- Patricia Drake
- PAT BARKER
- pat barker
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