Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Pat Barker NPG x87355

© Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mark Gerson

Born in Thornaby-on-Tees, Barker studied at the London School of Economics and Durham University and began to write in her mid-twenties. Her first two novels described the lives of working class women; Union Street (1982), which won the Fawcett Prize and Blow Your House Down (1984). Her trilogy of novels about the First World War was partly inspired by her grandfather's experiences fighting in the trenches. Regeneration (1991) was made into a film in 1997, The Eye in the Door (1993), won the Guardian Fiction... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.