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 Bog Child - Siobhan Dowd
 Bog Child - Siobhan Dowd ... published 2008-02-07 by David Fickling BooksNewest Review: ... we can engage with immediately: they know what they are doing is wrong, but it seems to be a kind of victimless wrong that ... more ... vividly evokes the difficulties in their lives. It is not long before Fergus finds 'the child that time forgot': a small body curled up in the bog. He initially assumes that the IRA are involved - welcome to Ireland in the early 1980s - but the pathologist dates the body back to the Iron age. Within pages, Fergus is hearing the voice of the girl he calls 'Mel' as she tells him her story.
Gradually, Mel's history is revealed through a series of dreams Fergus experiences. Although the girl's tale is a sad and often ...more |
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Bog Child - Siobhan Dowd: Life for a Typical Teen during the Troubles (915 words)
by - written on 17/06/09 (Very useful, 57 readings)
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Dowd's previous novel, 'A Swift Pure Cry', was published in 2006 and received an extremely positive reception. It won the 2007 Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award, and it was short listed for the Carnegie Medal and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. Her second novel was also very well received, so when I tentatively chose Dowd's third story for children off the shelf, I knew it had a lot to live up. Could it deliver? The question is particularly potent because the work was published posthumously, the author having passed away in August 2007. Would this be a gripping read or a punishing plod? The premise of 'Bog Child' is immediately intriguing: boy finds ... Read the complete review
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