Bog Child
by Siobhan Dowd
Children's fictionIreland, fictionFamily life, fictionTerrorism, fictionPolitical crimes and offenses, fictionViolence, fictionHistoryJuvenile fiction
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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Book data: Open Library