Pat Barker Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/pat-barker/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:37:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Pat Barker Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/pat-barker/ 32 32 38398750 January Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/january-reading-wrap-up-8/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/january-reading-wrap-up-8/#comments Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:28:54 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18942 Wrap-up is the perfect word for this January. One, it is COLD here in Seattle. Flannel sheets cold which makes for cozy reading. Two, for the first time in a very long time a month has felt like it lasted a year. I went from my normal head shake over “where did this month go” […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/january-reading-wrap-up-8/feed/ 11 18942 The Women of Troy: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/08/the-women-of-troy-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/08/the-women-of-troy-a-novel/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2021 04:57:24 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16042 Helen has always been the most well-known woman from the legend of Troy, but author Pat Barker brings to life another woman who, through no will of her own, played a role even more critical to the Trojan War mythology. Briseis.  The queen of a city sacked by Achilles when the war first began, she […]

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