Dowd, Siobhan.

Bog child / Siobhan Dowd. - 1st trade pbk. ed. - New York : David Fickling Books, [2010], c2008. - 321 p. ; 21 cm.

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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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Political prisoners--Fiction.
Bog bodies--Fiction.
Family life--Ireland--Fiction.
Terrorism--Fiction.


Ireland--History--Fiction.

PZ7.D7538 / Bog 2010

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