女作家帕特·巴克是20世纪80年代在英国文坛上崛起的作家之一,她早期的三部长篇小说主要描写作为工人阶级妇女的姥姥和母亲的生活,曾经得到已故英国著名女作家安吉拉·卡特的赞扬和鼓励。但是,直到出版了反映第一次世界大战的长篇小说三部曲《新生》她才受人们的广泛关注,此书的销量达到60万册,这在人口不足六千万的英国是 The writer Pat Buck was one of the writers who rose in literary circles in the UK in the 1980s. Her early three novels mainly described the life of working-class women’s grandmothers and mothers. They had been married to the late Anglo-American writer Anji La Carter’s praise and encouragement. However, it was not until the publication of “Freshmen”, a trilogy of novels that reflected World War I, that she received widespread attention. The book sold 600,000 copies, and in Britain, which has a population of less than 60 million,