Product Description

Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds 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 parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. "Bog Child" is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17654 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

Synopsis
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds 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 parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. "Bog Child" is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.

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

Customer Reviews

A Super Read
I bought this book for my teenager son to encourage him to read. If it is not sport or top gear he is not interested. I will keep working on him to read this book.

Bog in Ireland is where you get fuel (turf) for an open fire. So I am not sure the title is good for England becasue when I have talked to friends about it they think of a toilet.

The book has a very good story, about a 18 year old about to do his A levels. The story is based in about 1985. The boy discovers a body of a child in the bog. It has a couple of good twists to it and some humour when things seem very bleak. I don't want to give the story plot away, but would just recemmond the book strongly.