Noonday

Informationen zum Autor Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her late thirties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road . The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series. Klappentext 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 . Zusammenfassung London, 1940. As the bombs fall on the city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul works as an air-raid warden. As the bombing intensifies, the constant risk of death makes all three of them reach out for quick consolation.

Product details

• Authors: Pat Barker
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9780241966037
• ISBN: 978-0-241-96603-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: HAMISH HAMILTON; The Life Class Trilogy; The Life Class Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Romance in uniform