Her new novel, The Women of Troy, goes on to tell the story of that war’s aftermath – once again, mainly from the viewpoint of Briseis, a princess taken as a sex slave by the invading Greek hero Achilles. She conveyed anew the horror and barbarity of the Great War in her Regeneration and Life Class trilogies and astonishingly, in her 2018 novel The Silence of the Girls, she managed to evoke with equal vividness a conflict that may never actually have taken place – the Trojan War. Pat Barker has the gift of writing about long-ago wars in a way that makes them seem as urgent as the bulletins from any country in crisis.
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