Her first novel, “ Union Street” (1982), a series of portraits of down-and-out women all living on the same street, begins with the rape of an eleven-year-old another is about a group of sex workers being preyed on by a serial killer.Īfter the success of “Regeneration,” Barker continued to oscillate, for the most part, between the early twentieth century and the present. These, as often as not, are between women and men.
A decade before that, she had established herself with a trio of contemporary novels about working-class women in the North of England-the territory in which Barker grew up, and which she depicts as scarred by its own battles. The author, after all, had never strayed very far from the twentieth century: she is best known for her “ Regeneration” trilogy, about the intertwined fates of a group of Britons during the First World War, which has attained the status of a classic since its publication, in the nineteen-nineties. At first glance, Pat Barker’s 2018 novel, “ The Silence of the Girls”-an adaptation of Homer’s Iliad-looked like a radical departure.
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