Rollercoasters: Bog Child: Siobhan Dowd - Softcover

Dowd, Siobhan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198328915 ISBN 13: 9780198328919

Publisher: Oxford University Press España, S.A.

Synopsis

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 hunger-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...

Ideal for the classroom, this outstanding new novel will captivate your students from beginning to end.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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.

From the Back Cover:

Praise for A SWIFT PURE CRY:

'Beautifully written and deeply moving' Guardian

'Brilliant and heartbreaking debut' Irish Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press España, S.A.
• ISBN 10: 0198328915
• ISBN 13: 9780198328919
• Binding: Paperback