Novelist Jonathan Coe
calls the trilogy one of the few real masterpieces of late 20th-century British fiction.
qtd. in
Jaggi, Maya. “Pat Barker. Dispatches from the front”. The Guardian, 16 Aug. 2003, pp. G2: 16 - 19.
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Literary responses
Margaret Forster
Some reviewers, however, concentrated on the public policy issues. Jonathan Coe
in The Guardian suggested that Forster deserved a hypothetical prize for the most socially useful novel of the year,
qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
