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Bog Child

by Siobhan Dowd

Carnegie Medal for Writing · 2009 · Winner
David Fickling Bookshistorical-fictionISBN 9781299082953

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Carnegie Medal for Writing2009Winner

About This Book

Eighteen-year-old Fergus digs up the body of a young girl preserved in an Irish bog—and begins dreaming of her past life while his brother hunger-strikes in a Maze Prison cell. Siobhan Dowd's final novel weaves Iron Age mystery into the Troubles of 1981.

About the Author

Siobhan DowdIE

Siobhan Dowd was an Irish author whose posthumously celebrated young adult novels, including the Carnegie Medal-winning Bog Child (2009), earned her lasting recognition. She founded the charity Siobhan Dowd Trust to bring books to disadvantaged children. She died of cancer in 2007 at the age of 47.

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