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Bog Child
Siobhan Down
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Description for Bog Child
paperback. Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck.. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 130 x 246 x 25. Weight in Grams: 238.
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.
Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Definitions (Young Adult)
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909531178
SKU
9781909531178
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About Siobhan Down
Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person. Siobhan's first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, won the Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize. ... Read more
Reviews for Bog Child
As a writer, Dowd appears to be incapable of a jarring phrase or a lazy metaphor. Her sentences sing, each note resonates with an urgent humanity of the sort that cannot be faked
Guardian
The work of an outstanding writer
The Sunday Times
A captivating first love affair, a hilarious red herring and profound truths about ... Read more
Guardian
The work of an outstanding writer
The Sunday Times
A captivating first love affair, a hilarious red herring and profound truths about ... Read more