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Siobhan Dowd
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Publisher | David Fickling Books | ||
ISBN | 9781849920421 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
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.
Review
This is an amazing book about the finding of a bog child during the times of the troubles between Ireland's north and south. At the time of the hunger strikers in the Maze Prison (H Block).
I loved the book, and the story behind the main story, that of the brother of the main character Fergus, who gets caught up in the cross border troubles. Fergus becomes friends with the archaeologist who is doing research and gets to choose a name for the bog child - who he calls Mel - then many mysterious things start to happen!
Siobhan Dowd was a brilliant author and it is a shame that only three of the books she had written have ever been published, this one being published after her death in 2007. One of the others that we have also reviewed is 'The London Eye Mystery' which also was a master piece of writing.
Siobhan has a real love of the spoken and written word and knows how to keep her reader absolutely hooked until they finish her books. I just hope that her memory will live on through the books we have had made available for us to read and review.
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