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A Swift Pure Cry

A Swift Pure Cry

by SiobhanDowd (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

    $3.25

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    Paperback 2007

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    Hardcover 2006

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Synopsis

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. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual friendship with a naive young priest, and most importantly, her developing relationship with childhood friend, Declan, charming, eloquent and persuasive. But when Declan suddenly leaves Ireland to seek his fortune in America, Shell finds herself pregnant and the centre of a scandal that rocks the small community in which she lives, with repercussions across the whole country. The lives of those immediately around her will never be the same again.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: David Fickling Books
Published: 01 Jul 2010
ISBN 10: 1849920532
ISBN 13: 9781849920537
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
 Book Overview: This is an extraordinary story of one girl's courage in the face of prejudice and hardship within a small community in Ireland.

Media Reviews
Movingly written, this is a sad but not a dismal story, given Shell's resilient personality and the support she gets from a generous-hearted priest. This debut novel is a fine and memorable achievement: it never sells its characters short and always stays close to what was thought to have happened at the time -- Nick Tucker Independent It's a beautifully written, lyrical story -- Tony Bradman PEN In a densely woven tapestry of poetic language, sensations, and childhood experience, Dowd's characters stumble through life, bewildered and bereaved, reviving feelings and emotions that are most usually pushed into the back recesses of the mind -- Jamila Gavin Guardian This story is told with the innocence and naivety of a young girl and leaves the reader to feel the true emotion behind it. This story will have you hooked; you will go through the usual emotions a well-written book should stir up - laughter, sadness, anger, and compassion Irish Post A superb first novel, beautifully written, deeply moving and full of heartbreak. Siobhan Dowd writes without judgement but with enormous sympathy and understanding -- Julia Eccleshare Love Reading 4 Kids
Author Bio
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. A Swift Pure Cry was Siobhan's first novel and it has 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. Siobhan's third astonishing but sadly posthumous book, Bog Child, was published in 2008 and her fourth, Solace of the Road, was published in 2009.