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Pat Barker is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery.The Ghost Road is a war novel, first published in 1995 and winner of the Booker Prize. It is the third volume of a trilogy that follows the fortunes of shell-shocked British army officers towards the end of the First World War.This episode is a symbolic capitulation to the inevitability of Prior's death at the Western Front, a fate he shares with the poet Wilfred Owen. In a futile battle that takes place a few days before the Armistice, Billy and his friend Owen are killed.
