Liza's England

Pat Barker''s writing is so sure and her characters so vital that a powerful story emerges honest grim but often funny and always engrossing. -NewsdayIn Liza''s England Liza Garrett is the first child in town born in the twentieth century--whose life in many ways mirrors the turmoil of England itself. The tough severe but very real and recognizable world of women is put to the most strenuous tests and Liza at eighty-four is proof that loyalty fortitude and humor survive.