by Siobhan Dowd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862305915
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«Bog Child» is the young adult historical novel by Siobhan Dowd, published by Definitions in paperback, in English.
In 1981, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, eighteen-year-old Fergus finds the body of a girl in a peat bog. Between exams, his brother's hunger strike in prison and his work as a messenger, Fergus tries to understand a turbulent world while dreams draw him closer to the mystery of the bog child.
Winner of the Carnegie Medal, it was also nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel. This Definitions edition has 322 pages.
For young and adult readers looking for historical fiction set in Ireland and coming-of-age stories with a political backdrop.
Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist. The last book she completed, Bog Child, posthumously won the 2009 Carnegie Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best book for children or young adults published in the UK.
