{"product_id":"9780241817025-dipped-in-ink","title":"Dipped in Ink","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA multigenerational memoir of working-class womanhood in 20th century Britain, centring on the extraordinary family history of one of our greatest living novelists - Pat Barker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatricia Margaret Drake was not a wanted child. Born in 1943 in the working-class north-east of England, her arrival was met with dismay by all involved. Her childhood was a solitary and often precarious one, marked by absences and unanswered questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Many decades later, Dame Pat Barker has defied the odds to become a bestselling and widely beloved author, a Booker Prize winner, a national treasure. But in all her years as a storyteller, Pat never shared the story of her own life with anyone – not even with her own daughter, Anna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive years ago, following a health scare, Pat began talking to Anna about her childhood for the first time. Over many months, she revealed a complex story of secrets and parallel lives, illegitimacy and poverty, of loss and grief, labour and ambition, love and self-sacrifice, mothers and daughters. And Anna, herself also a writer, started teasing out the tangled threads which connect this vanished past to her own life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDipped in Ink\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary family portrait, centring on Pat Barker and opening out, concertina-like, to reveal several generations of women who came before her. Vividly and candidly told, by turns painful and defiant, with flashes of dark humour,\u003ci\u003e Dipped in Ink\u003c\/i\u003e is an emotional duet between mother and daughter and a memorial to a century of foremothers whose lives were shaped and often cruelly constrained by circumstance and social expectation. Through this remarkable family history, Anna Barker reveals a much broader story of working-class womanhood in twentieth-century Britain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816049254774,"sku":"9780241817025","price":15.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41438605_62f1a539-fbdf-4624-9b30-1707160f989f.jpg?v=1779934742","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241817025-dipped-in-ink","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}