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The last book she completed, bog child, posthumously won the 2009 carnegie medal from the professional librarians, recognising the years best book for children or young adults published in the u. Dowds first novel was a swift pure cry, a 2006 novel about a teenager named shell, a girl who lives in county cork, ireland. Siobhan dowds novels include a swift pure cry, for which she was named a publishers weekly flying start author, the london eye mystery, and bog child. The setting is ireland before the tiger economy and eu grants transformed the impoverished crofters cottage into a glitzy bungalow. A swift pure cry siobhan dowd random house this debut introduces the smalltown community of coolbar in mid80s ireland, where we meet shell and her young siblings. Since her depressed father has turned to alcoholism, shell is left. Her fathers drinking keeps him out of work, and her family firmly rooted in poverty. Siobhan dowd s a swift pure cry is a comingofage story featuring 15yearold irish shell talent soon after her mothers death.
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