Bog child
By: Siobhan Dowd.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford, [UK]; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780385751698; 9780385751704
Subjects: Political prisoners -- Fiction; Bog bodies -- Fiction; Family life -- Ireland -- Fiction; Political violence -- Fiction; Terrorism -- Fiction; Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction; Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
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.