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ANOTHER WORLD
‘One of the best things she has ever done, surely the most moving’ Ruth Rendell, Sunday Times
‘Masterly… with scenes of tremendous emotion that surpass the intensity of the Regeneration trilogy…
Although her subject matter is always serious, often dramatic, Barker has never been sensational. Facts and
implication are enough for her and she uses them to great effect, leaving us to wonder, what if…?’
Rosemary Goring, Scotland on Sunday
‘Gripping… never less than compulsively readable’ Margaret Forster, Literary Review
‘This subtle and beautifully written story of a discordant contemporary family shows how the violent past
still has power to thrust out its distorting tentacles’ P. D. James, Sunday Times
‘Simple, strong and devastating… Few writers are willing to brave the deep waters that Barker enters. In
spite of her humour, she is a serious writer, tackling the mystery of evil and showing the past repeating
itself compulsively’ Carol Birch, The Times Literary Supplement
‘[A] compelling, moving and disturbing novel’ Michele Roberts, Independent on Sunday
‘Intensely feeling… Geordie is a beautifully realized character, tough, humorous, and finally enigmatic’
Helen Dunmore, The Times
‘Compelling’ Rachel Cusk, Express
‘Keenly observed and sympathetic… an exquisitely detailed portrait of family relationships’ Stephanie
Merritt, Observer
‘A fine writer at the peak of her form… Another World can be regarded as an epilogue to the Regeneration
trilogy’ David Robson, Sunday Telegraph
‘An electric, disturbing novel… This is outstanding fiction, chilling and honest about the real struggles in
family life – Barker’s best book yet’ Woman’s Journal
‘[Barker] makes us feel we know these people, care about them and their concerns… [Geordie] is a
wonderful creation who dominates the narrative and whose concerns are echoed throughout the book’
Glasgow Herald
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943. She was educated at the
London School of Economics and has been a teacher of history and politics. Her
books include Union Street (1982), winner of the 1983 Fawcett Prize, which has
been filmed as Stanley and Iris; Blow Your House Down (1984); Liza’s England
(1986), formerly The Century’s Daughter, The Man Who Wasn’t There (1989);
the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, The Eye in
the Door, winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road,
winner of the 1995 Booker Prize for Fiction; Another World; and her latest
novel, Border Crossing. A single-volume edition of the Regeneration trilogy is
also available in Penguin.
Pat Barker is married and lives in Durham.
PAT BARKER
Another World
PENGUIN BOOKS
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First published by Viking 1998
Published in Penguin Books 1999
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Copyright © Pat Barker, 1998
All rights reserved.
The moral right of the author has been asserted Except in the United States of America, this book is sold
subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or
otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in
which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the
subsequent purchaser.
ISBN: 978-0-14-192883-8
For David, Donna and Gillon
– with love
Remember: the past won’t fit into memory without something left over; it must
have a future.
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