Bog child

By Siobhan Dowd

Subjects: Ireland, fiction, Social conditions, History, Fiction, Children's fiction, Violence, fiction, Terrorism, fiction, Political crimes and offenses, fiction, Family life, fiction, Great britain, fiction

Description: In 1981, the height of Ireland's modern "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 his dreams about a murdered girl he discoveres in a peat bog.