Border Crossing (Paperback, New Ed)

The theme that runs through Barker's superficially very different works - she is best known for her regeneration trilogy, set during and after World War I - is a fascination with the life of the mind, the tricks the mind plays on life and those that life plays on the mind. This latest novel is an intelligent examination of the nature of evil, memory and obsession. While walking along the beach child psychologist Tom rescues a young man, Danny, from drowning. When Tom realises that this is the same man at whose trial he gave significant evidence many years previously in a murder case, he begins to wonder how much their latest encounter is really the coincidence it at first appeared. He agrees to help Danny explore the events leading up to the trial and as he gets increasingly drawn into the young man's psyche, finds himself questioning many of the convictions he had previously held secure. Meanwhile, as one relationship grows in intensity, and the personal and professional intertwine, Tom's wife is slipping away, their marriage seemingly past the point of no return. As the central character, Danny is a masterpiece, a beguiling and convincing combination of victim and aggressor, apparently leaving a trail of broken lives in his wake. His is a character of unresolved opposites, at times deeply manipulative and destructive, at others, charming, innocent, inconsistencies played out brilliantly, in an atmosphere of increasing menace and intensity, in the taut, spare language at which Barker excels. (Kirkus UK)

An unflinching novel on the nature of evil from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls 'Rich, surprising, breathtaking' The Times 'A tremendous piece of writing, sad and terrifying. It keeps you reading, exhausted and blurry-eyed, until 2am' Independent on Sunday 'Barker probes not only the mysteries of 'evil' but society's horrified and incoherent response to it' Guardian 'Brilliantly crafted. Unflinching yet sensitive, this is a dark story expertly told' Daily Mail When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller. When Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of prison with a new identity, Danny has some questions - questions he thinks only Tom can answer. Reluctantly, Tom is drawn back into Danny's world - a place where the border between good and evil, innocence and guilt is blurred and confused. But when Danny's demands on Tom become extreme, Tom wonders whether he has crossed a line of his own - and in crossing it, can he ever go back?

General

Imprint:	Penguin Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2002
First published:	April 2002
Authors:	Pat Barker
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	288
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-027074-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-14-027074-4
Barcode:	9780140270747

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