The Silence of the Girls
British novelist, born 1943. Won the Booker Prize in 1995.
The Silence of the Girls is a 2018 novel by Pat Barker. It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award in 2018.
On 3 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Pat Barker
- First published
- 2018
- Length
- 336 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award shortlist, 2018
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2019
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Feminist, War and conflict
Is The Silence of the Girls worth reading?
3 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Costa Novel Award and The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2018) | Shortlist | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 67 | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2019) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of The Silence of the Girls
The edition we link to is the Penguin paperback (2019), 336 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin (paperback, 2019)
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN
- 9780241983201
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Silence of the Girls
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 27% of the points available on prize lists, against 18% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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