Bog Child
Author(s): Siobhan Dowd
The extraordinary story of one long summer in the life of an 18-year-old boy caught up in the chaos and conflict of Ireland in the 1980s.
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 the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.
Winner of Bisto Book of the Year Award 2009.
Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2009. Shortlisted for Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2008.
General Information
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- : Random House Children's Books
- : Definitions
- : 0.224
- : 01 February 2009
- : 198mm X 129mm X 22mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Siobhan Dowd
- : 4-Sep
- : 336
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The extraordinary story of one long summer in the life of an 18-year-old boy caught up in the chaos and conflict of Ireland in the 1980s.
