Border Crossing

Name: Border Crossing
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Pat Barker
ISBN: 9781449801465

Author: Pat Barker

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/16/2008

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Psychological

Synopsis

As Tom Seymour walks with his wife along the river Tyne, they see a young man jump from the jetty into the freezing water. Instinctively, Tom rescues him. But his act saves the life of Danny Miller, whose past, as well as whose future, will come to haunt Tom. Recently released from prison, and living under an assumed name, Danny was tried for murder as a 10-year-old on the basis of Tom's assessment of him as a psychologist. When Danny asks Tom to help him sort out his life, Tom is drawn into a lonely, soul-searching reinvestigation of the case.

About Pat Barker

Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing, she sent her fiction out. She has now published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. Her last novel, The Silence of the Girls, began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy continues that story. Pat Barker lives in Durham.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel

I read this because I loved Barker’s harrowing, gorgeously written, revelatory Regeneration trilogy, about shell-shocked soldiers in WWI. Having read Border Crossing… I highly recommend Regeneration. Tom Seymour, a psychologist, is walking along the river with his soon-to-be-ex-wife when a young man......more

Goodreads review by Elena

BORDER CROSSING (2001) explores the problem of evil, a subject that Pat Barker had explored in her previous novel, ANOTHER WORLD. There are murderous children in ANOTHER WORLD and in this novel we have Danny Miller, a ten-year old neglected boy who murdered Lizzie Parkes, a 76 year old woman, when s......more

Goodreads review by Claire

3.5 stars. Tom, a child psychologist saves a young man from drowning, and discovers that he is Danny, who he helped convict when Danny was accused and found guilty of murdering an old woman when Danny was a child. Now Danny wants to find out what happened on that day, and asks Tom to help him. I had......more

Goodreads review by Cody | CodysBookshelf

I had such high hopes for this book. Back in April when I was on a female authors kick, I asked several bookworm friends who they recommended, and several said Pat Barker. Upon reading reviews online, I discovered Barker has been around since the '80s and is pretty popular -- at least in England. I......more