The extraordinary story of one long summer in the life of an 18-year-old boy
caught up in the chaos and conflict of Ireland in the 1980s.
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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.
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