Noonday by Pat Barker
London, the Blitz, autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul works as an air-raid warden.
Publisher's descriptionPat Barker brings the besieged and haunted city of Blitz-era London to electrifying life in Noonday, the third and final novel in her 'Life Class Trilogy'. Bombs are falling on London and, still suffering from the losses of the Great War, Elinor, Paul and Kit must face war's horrors once again... * Penguin *
Barker's command of detail and gift for metaphor are as sharp as ever: her evocation of the bombed city is terrific, and every night patrol is steeped in drama... As a tribute to those who dared and suffered on the home front, Noonday is in the first rank * Mail on Sunday *
Tremendously good * Daily Mail *
Bold, hard-hitting, unforgettable... a virtuoso rendition of the bombing, as huge swathes of London blaze away with the brightest of bright lights... Barker shows us how the city's finest moment was indubitably also its most terrifying, with luminous and unsparing insight * Independent on Sunday *
This is the first time the author of the Regeneration Trilogy has written about the Second World War and it's a triumph * Stylist *
Ambitious, vivid, sharp... she writes with precision about distinct effects on the senses - the "edge of darkness buzzing"... Barker's chronological leap is a sophisticated bridge between the drama of the present and the haunted history of the past... The closer you get to the end, the more lives need saving and the more thwarted and complicated the domestic backdrop * Daily Telegraph *
Colourfully alive, fizzes with energy... the novel's point of view swivel[s] like a torchbeam to illuminate London's devastated streets * Independent *
Many strokes of genius from Barker... accessible and moving * Sunday Times *
Noonday's Blitz-era setting gives Barker ample opportunity to do what she does best: intent descriptions of splayed limbs that are sometimes engaged in the act of love, occasionally the subjects of paintings or, more often, casualties of war * Spectator *
The book has its own inherent power thanks to Barker's skilful rendering of the texture of the period but it is richer and more rewarding if read with the other two volumes of this beautifully crafted trilogy * Daily Express *
Barker's command of detail and gift for metaphor are as sharp as ever: her evocation of the bombed city is terrific, and every night patrol is steeped in drama... As a tribute to those who dared and suffered on the home front, Noonday is in the first rank * Mail on Sunday *
Tremendously good * Daily Mail *
Bold, hard-hitting, unforgettable... a virtuoso rendition of the bombing, as huge swathes of London blaze away with the brightest of bright lights... Barker shows us how the city's finest moment was indubitably also its most terrifying, with luminous and unsparing insight * Independent on Sunday *
This is the first time the author of the Regeneration Trilogy has written about the Second World War and it's a triumph * Stylist *
Ambitious, vivid, sharp... she writes with precision about distinct effects on the senses - the "edge of darkness buzzing"... Barker's chronological leap is a sophisticated bridge between the drama of the present and the haunted history of the past... The closer you get to the end, the more lives need saving and the more thwarted and complicated the domestic backdrop * Daily Telegraph *
Colourfully alive, fizzes with energy... the novel's point of view swivel[s] like a torchbeam to illuminate London's devastated streets * Independent *
Many strokes of genius from Barker... accessible and moving * Sunday Times *
Powerful and vivid, with nuanced characters and Barker's unerring eye for detail
* Women and Home *Noonday's Blitz-era setting gives Barker ample opportunity to do what she does best: intent descriptions of splayed limbs that are sometimes engaged in the act of love, occasionally the subjects of paintings or, more often, casualties of war * Spectator *
The book has its own inherent power thanks to Barker's skilful rendering of the texture of the period but it is richer and more rewarding if read with the other two volumes of this beautifully crafted trilogy * Daily Express *
Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. She lives in Durham and her latest novel is The Silence of the Girls.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241146064 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241146062 |
| Title | Noonday |
| Author | Pat Barker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-08-27 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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