PB
married zoology lecturer David Barker
of Durham University, with whom she had already been living for close to a decade.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Pat Barker
PB
met David Barker
, a university scientist twenty years her senior, in a pub in 1969. He left his wife to live with her, and both of their children were born before his divorce...
Textual Production
Pat Barker
PB
says that one stage she threw away the manuscript of this novel in despair, but her husband
rescued it from the bin.
Jaggi, Maya. “Pat Barker. Dispatches from the front”. The Guardian, 16 Aug. 2003, pp. G2: 16 - 19.
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She said she felt the absence of models for writing fiction...