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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.
Here, as in her Booker Prize-winning 'Regeneration' trilogy, Barker explores the way that cataclysmic events in the past affect the present. Her protagonist has moved with his pregnant wife, his daughter from a former marriage and his stepson into a ramshackle 19th-century mansion in a Newcastle suburb. Here, over one hot summer, they cope with the strains of renovating the house, as well as trying to establish themselves as a family. This is overshadowed by the discovery that their new home was once the site of a tragedy, in which the resentful stepchildren of a Victorian paterfamilias exacted a terrible revenge on a younger half-brother. Barker's depiction of sibling rivalries and the way they can undermine families is very well observed. (Kirkus UK)
