1. Sarah Brophy, ‘Working-Class Women, Labor, and the Problem of Community in Union Street and Liza’s England’, in Sharon Monteith, Margaretta Jolly, Nahem Yousaf and Ronald Paul (eds), Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2005), p. 25; Margaretta Jolly, ‘After Feminism: Pat Barker, Penelope Lively and the Contemporary Novel’, in Alistair Davies and Alan Sinfield (eds), British Culture of the Postwar: An Introduction to Literature and Society 1945–1999 (London: Routledge, 2000), p. 68.
2. John Kirk, ‘Recovered Perspectives: Gender, Class, and Memory in Pat Barker’s Writing’, Contemporary Literature XL.4 (1999); Lyn Pykett, ‘The Century’s Daughters: Recent Women’s Fiction and History’, Critical Quarterly 29.3 (September 1987), p. 73.
3. Donna Perry, ‘Going Home Again: An Interview with Pat Barker’, The Literary Review 34.2 (Winter 1991), p. 237.
4. Kennedy Fraser, ‘Ghost Writer: Pat Barker’s Haunted Imagination’, New Yorker (17 March 2008), p. 41.
5. Pauline Willis, ‘Monday Women: Bulletin’, The Guardian (15 September 1986); Norman Shrapnel, ‘Books: A Last Stand for People’, The Guardian (15 September 1986).