Anna Barker – författare

A multigenerational portrait of working-class womanhood in 20th century Britain, centring on the extraordinary family history of one of our greatest living novelists - Pat BarkerPatricia Margaret Drake was not a wanted child. Born in 1943 in the working-class north-east of England, her arrival was met with dismay by all involved. Her childhood was a solitary and often precarious one, marked by absences and unanswered questions.Many decades later, Dame Pat Barker has defied the odds to become a bestselling and widely beloved author, a Booker Prize winner, a national treasure. But in all her years as a storyteller, Pat never shared the story of her own life with anyone – not even her own daughter, Anna.Five years ago, following a health scare, Pat began talking to Anna about her childhood for the first time. Over many months, she revealed a complex story of secrets and parallel lives, illegitimacy and poverty, of loss and grief, labour and ambition, love and self-sacrifice, mothers and daughters. And Anna, herself also a writer, started teasing out the tangled threads which connect this vanished past to her own life.Dipped in Ink is a literary family portrait, centring on Pat Barker and opening out, concertina-like, to reveal several generations of women who came before her. Vividly and candidly told, by turns painful and defiant, with flashes of dark humour, Dipped in Ink is an emotional duet between mother and daughter and a memorial to a century of foremothers whose lives were shaped and often cruelly constrained by circumstance and social expectation. Through this remarkable family history, Anna Barker reveals a much broader story of working-class womanhood in twentieth-century Britain.

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The ageing of our population is a key societal issue across the globe. Although people are living longer, they need to be living longer in good health to continue to enjoy quality of life and independence and to prevent rises in health and social care costs. This timely and ground-breaking volume will provide an up-to-date overview of the factors that promote physical activity in later life. Despite advances in the fields of gerontology and geriatrics, sports and exercise science, sociology, health psychology, and public health, knowledge is largely contained within disciplines as reflected in the current provision of academic texts on this subject. To truly address the present and substantial societal challenges of population ageing, a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach is required. This handbook will inform researchers, students, and practitioners on the current evidence base for what physical activities need to be promoted among older people and how they can be implemented to maximise engagement. This handbook will be an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and students across the social sciences.