In 1983 she was named as one of the 20 'Best Young British Novelists' in a promotion run by the Book Marketing Council and Granta magazine. The Century's Daughter (re-published as Liza's England in 1996) was published in 1986, followed by The Man Who Wasn't There in 1989. Her first book, Union Street (1982) won the Fawcett Society Book Prize, while her second, Blow Your House Down (1984), was adapted for the stage by Sarah Daniels in 1994. Her early novels dealt with the harsh lives of working-class women living in the north of England. She began to write in her mid-twenties and was encouraged to pursue her career as a writer by the novelist Angela Carter. She taught History and Politics until 1982. She was educated at the London School of Economics, where she read International History, and at Durham University. Novelist Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in Yorkshire, England, on.
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