by Pat Barker · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241966037
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«Noonday» is the historical novel by Pat Barker, published by Penguin Books in paperback (272 pages, in English).
In London in autumn 1940, during the Blitz, Elinor Brooke works as an ambulance driver alongside her old friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul Tarrant is an anti-aircraft lookout. Constant danger rekindles old loves and obsessions, and Elinor must face an almost impossible decision.
Published in 2016, Noonday is the third and final installment of Pat Barker's Life Class trilogy, completed by Life Class and Toby's Room; it can also be read as a standalone novel.
For those seeking historical and war fiction focused on civilian life during the Blitz and on the personal relationships of its protagonists.
Dame Patricia Mary W. 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. She is known for her Regeneration Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and, more recently, a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with The Silence of the Girls in 2018.
