Bog Child

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.

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

Places: Northern Ireland

Times: 1968-1998,  1969-