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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 From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls'Gripping in the best most exquisite sense of the word' Mail on Sunday'Utterly compelling... She is a novelist who probes deep revealing what people prefer to keep hidden' Scotsman'Extraordinary... Without question the best novel I have read this year' Daily Mail'Brilliant touches of observation an unfailing ear for dialogue... This is a novel that doesn't allow you to miss a sentence' New York Times Book ReviewAt 101 years old Geordie a proud Somme veteran lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunted by the ghosts of the trenches and the horror surrounding his brother's death. But in Nick's family home the dark pressures of the past also encroach on the present. As he and his wife Fran try to unite their uneasy family of step- and half-siblings the discovery of a sinister Victorian drawing reveals the murderous history of their house and casts a violent shadow on their lives... Zusammenfassung In Pat Barker's Another World, the First World War casts its shadow down the generations. At 101 years old, Geordie, a proud Somme veteran, lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunted by the ghosts of the trenches and the horror surrounding his brother's death....
