Bog child
1st American ed.
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Author
Publication
2008 - David Fickling Books, Oxford, [UK, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
80,250 words, Guess
Page Count
321 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26846029M
- ISBN-139780385614269
- ISBN-100385614268
- OCLC Control Number176822813
- Library of Congress Control Number2008002998
Classifications
- LCCPZ7.D7538 Bog 2008
Description
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.From the Hardcover edition.
Description
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
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- Fiction
- Juvenile fiction
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