The articles that follow, written during the ‘McEwan plagiarism furore’ in 2006, all pose the same question: how should we write about the past? How should a novelist handle historical material in their work? What can ...
Pat Barker's First World War novel Regeneration concludes with an author's note remarking that ‘[f]act and fiction are so interwoven in this book that it may help the reader to know what is fictional and what is not’ (251). ...