Nicola Barber is the author of a range of novels, including Toby's Room and the political thriller The Shadow Cabinet. Her other works include In Their Footsteps and All the Ways We Said Goodbye.
Patricia Mary W. Barker (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is known for her Regeneration Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and for a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with The Silence of the Girls.