Pat Barker: When I first read Pride and Prejudice, I hated it'
Briefly

"As a little girl I asked him what it was. Later, I knew better than to ask... Their words, and his silence, formed a bridge between the worlds of school and home."
"The last thing an embryo writer needs is somebody else's full-term story. Lies, secrets, silences make a writer. The constant bafflement, the itch you never quite manage to scratch."
Read at www.theguardian.com
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