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"I dont know why I killed her, I didnt know then and I dont know now. And I dont know how to live with it."
Pat BarkerA second later, the water enclosed him in a coffin of ice. — Pat Barker
"A second later, the water enclosed him in a coffin of ice."
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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.
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