The Voyage Home

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, she sent her fiction out. She has now published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won the UK''s highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. br>br> Her last novel, The Silence of the Girls, began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told. It was shortlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy continues that story. Pat Barker lives in Durham.>

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Pat Barker, Barker Pat
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780241568255
• ISBN: 978-0-241-56825-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, FICTION / Historical / Ancient, Ancient Greece, War & combat fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Love and relationships