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Oxford Playscripts: Bog Child Adrian Flynn

Oxford Playscripts: Bog Child By Adrian Flynn

Oxford Playscripts: Bog Child by Adrian Flynn


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Summary

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, this adaptation of award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd's novel intersects the stories of teenage Fergus and his hunger striker brother with Mel, whose ancient body he finds preserved in the bog.

Oxford Playscripts: Bog Child Summary

Oxford Playscripts: Bog Child by Adrian Flynn

An engaging classroom playscript. Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds something that makes his heart stop. Curled up deep in the bog is the body of a child. And it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his mam and da arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck - a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls...

Oxford Playscripts: Bog Child Reviews

The text includes useful support for classroom teachers providing appendices on background information and a range of helpful activities for both English and Drama lessons all referenced to Framework objectives and to the possibilities for self and peer assessment. Enjoyable, accessible and challenging, it is to be recommended on all fronts. * John Hickman, NATE Classroom *

Additional information

GOR005327463
9780198310877
0198310870
Oxford Playscripts: Bog Child by Adrian Flynn
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20090507
144
Winner of Carnegie Medal 2009 Winner of Bisto Book of the Year Award 2009 Short-listed for Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2008
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