The Voyage Home - Pat Barker

PAT BARKER is the author of sixteen novels, beginning with her masterpiece Union Street in 1982. Her Regeneration Trilogy novels, set in the First World War, were awarded the Booker Prize and praised as some of the greatest historical novels in British literature. Her novel The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Prize in the UK and won the Independent Bookshop Award in 2019. She was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2000. She lives in Durham, England.