Are Pat Barker's Union Street and Beatrix Campbell's Wigan Pier Revisited the Same Text?

Are Pat Barker’s Union Street and Beatrix Campbell’s Wigan Pier Revisited the Same Text? Union Street by Alice Barker is a novel about different stages in women’s lives. It starts out with a young girl who gets raped and ends with a dying old lady on a park bench. We get to follow the women through their problems such as bad marriages, money problems and getting old. The novel is written in …

…home and do not go to work after they got married and you cannot sense the fighting spirit, they just accept their “destiny”. In my opinion Union Street is a rather depressing book although it has its bright spots. Wigan’s Pier Revisited shows us to the facts that teenage mothers can make it on their own that women work and that there is an interest in politics, they are trying to change their situation.