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(ISBN: 0755328116, ISBN-13: 9780755328116)

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Title: Bog Child
Author: Siobhan Dowd
ISBN: 1862305919
EAN: 9781862305915
336 Pages
Publisher: Definitions
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2009-02-05

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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.

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.

One inch from the wall of brown turf, he froze.
'There's something here. In the earth. A hand.'

Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds something that makes his heart stop. Curled up deep in the bog is 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 hnger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his mam and da arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck - a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.
Set in Ireland in the 1980s, Bog Child is a powerful novel that explores the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.

Praise for A SWIFT PURE CRY:
'Beautifully written and deeply moving'
Guardian
'Brilliant and heartbreaking debut'
Irish Post

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 She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person, and leaves two unpublished novels, the first being Bog Child. 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. Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, won the 2007 NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award, and the Bisto Book of the Year 2007/2008 award.

2008-03-08 A Super Read

I bought this book for my teenager son to encourage him to read. If it is not sport or top gear he is not interested. I will keep working on him to read this book.

Bog in Ireland is where you get fuel (turf) for an open fire. So I am not sure the title is good for England becasue when I have talked to friends about it they think of a toilet.

The book has a very good story, about a 18 year old about to do his A levels. The story is based in about 1985. The boy discovers a body of a child in the bog. It has a couple of good twists to it and some humour when things seem very bleak. I don't want to give the story plot away, but would just recemmond the book strongly.