Pat Barker and the Mediation of Social Reality (Hardcover)

Pat Barker is one of the most compelling of the current generation of British novelists, especially in her use of the novel as an instrument of social critique, fashioning a literature which does not shy away from asking thorny questions, refusing the doctrinaire of what goes without saying, suspicious of simple answers.

To date she has published eleven novels, some of which have been adapted for stage and screen.