Border Crossing

Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. 

Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working-class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers.

Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize.