Border Crossing; A Novel

by Pat Barker

• ISBN13: 9780374181154
• ISBN10: 0374181152
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's new novel portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland. Uncannily, he recognizes the man; it's Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he once gave evidence. Since the trial, he has reconsidered that evidence and found it lacking. Now he confronts the man whose altered fate may be his responsibility.

Author Biography

Pat Barker's most recent novel is Another World. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy, comprising Regeneration, which has been made into a film starring Jonathan Pryce and James Wilby, The Eye in the Door, winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, winner of the 1996 Booker Prize. She lives in England.