by Siobhan Dowd
Finally, I would like to thank my husband Geoff Morgan for lending me his old physics A-level exercise book and cheering me along every step of the way.
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School’s Out Words and Music by Alice Cooper and Michael Bruce © 1972 by Third Palm Music (BMI) and Ezra Music Corp–all rights administered by Third Palm Music, California, USA–Copyright Renewed–All Rights Reserved–Reproduced by kind permission of Carlin Music Corporation–London NW1 8BD
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2008 by Siobhan Dowd
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dowd, Siobhan.
Bog child/Siobhan Dowd.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
Summary: In 1981, the height of Ireland’s “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 dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
1. Ireland—History—20th century—Juvenile fiction. [1. Ireland—History—20th century—Fiction. 2. Political prisoners—Fiction. 3. Bog bodies—Fiction. 4. Family life–Ireland—Fiction. 5. Political violence—Fiction. 6. Terrorism—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D7538Bog 2008
[Fic]—dc22
2008002998
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