Siobhan Dowd

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!

This is a brilliant yet heartbreakingly debut novel by Siobahn Dowd.

The author has written this story around a family in the South of Ireland where the daughter of the family is having to hold the family together, because a father has become an alchoholic.  She has no one to turn to when things start to go wrong and the outcome is not one any young person should have to go through.

The  story is so moving and it shows how little country villages can twist and turn incidents to their own agenda and have people pilleried by the village folk just by blatent gossip.

This is a brilliant book by Siobham Dowd, about a brother and sister and their visiting cousin who comes down from Manchester and loves high buildings, so they agree to visit the London Eye and take the trip on this big wheel that looks more like a bike wheel than a ferris wheel. Thats when the mystery begins Their cousin Salim disappears - but how? and Why?