A Swift Pure Cry

Informationen zum Autor Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person. Siobhan's first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, won the Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize. Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery , won the 2007 NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award. In March 2008, the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Children's Books Ireland Bisto Awards. Siobhan's third novel, Bog Child , was the first book to be posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2008. The award-winning novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness was based on an idea of Siobhan's. Her novella, The Ransom of Dond , was published in 2013, illustrated throughout by Pam Smy. Klappentext After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Zusammenfassung After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister.

Product details

• Authors: Siobhan Dowd, Dowd Siobhan
• Publisher: Random House Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9781909531185
• ISBN: 978-1-909531-18-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Dating & Sex, Ireland, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Topics / Dating & Relationships, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Pregnancy, Interest age: from c 12 years, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / General