Noonday

Barker, Pat

ISBN 10: 0241146062 / ISBN 13: 9780241146064

Published by Hamish Hamilton (an imprint of Penguin Books), London, 2015

About this Item

First UK edition, hardcover, dated 8/30/15 and signed by Barker on the title page, the book has a subtle lean to the binding, mild bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and minor rubbing to to the covers. Overall, a solid, Very Good+ copy in a like , unclipped dust jacket, which has light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and mild rubbing to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Seller Inventory # 211390

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Noonday
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (an imprint of Penguin Books), London
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241146062
• ISBN 13: 9780241146064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition Thus.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

In Noonday, Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration - turns for the first time to WWII.

'Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards them out of the orange-streaked darkness, their manes and tails on fire...'

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.

Once fellow students at the Slade School of Fine Art, before the First World War destroyed the hopes of their generation, they now find themselves caught in another war, this time at home. As the bombing intensifies, the constant risk of death makes all three of them reach out for quick consolation. Old loves and obsessions re-surface until Elinor is brought face to face with an almost impossible choice.

Completing the story of Elinor Brooke, Paul Tarrant and Kit Neville, begun with Life Class and continued with Toby's Room, Noonday is both a stand-alone novel and the climax of a trilogy. Writing about the Second World War for the first time, Pat Barker brings the besieged and haunted city of London into electrifying life in her most powerful novel since the Regeneration trilogy.

Praise for Pat Barker:

'She is not only a fine chronicler of war but of human nature.' Independent

'A brilliant stylist... Barker delves unflinchingly into the enduring mysteries of human motivation.' Sunday Telegraph

'You go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a clear eye, steadily facing the history of our world.' The Guardian

'Barker is a writer of crispness and clarity and an unflinching seeker of the germ of what it means to be human." The Herald

Praise for Toby's Room:

'Heart-rending, superb, forensically observant and stylistically sublime' Independent

'Magnificent; I finished it eagerly, wanting to know what happened next, and as I read, I was enjoying, marvelling and learning' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'Dark, painful, yet also tender. It succeeds brilliantly' New York Times

'The plot unfurls to a devastating conclusion . . . a very fine piece of work' Melvyn Bragg, New Statesman

Other titles in the trilogy:
Life Class
Toby's Room

About the Author

Pat Barker is the author of Union Street, Blow your House Down, The Century's Daughter, The Man Who Wasn't There, the Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road), Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, and the Life Class Trilogy (Life Class, Toby's Room and Noonday). Pat Barker lives in Durham.