Across the Barricades: A Kevin and Sadie Story
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Across the Barricades: A Kevin and Sadie Story
By (Author) Joan Lingard
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Penguin Books Ltd
30th January 2017
4th August 2016
United Kingdom
Classifications
Young Adult
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 16mm
174g
Description
A powerful story of young love across the divide, during The Troubles in Northern Ireland; now part of the Originals collection, showcasing Penguin's very best modern classics for young adults. Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast. Soldiers walk the streets and the city is divided. No Catholic boy and Protestant girl can go out together - not without dangerous consequences . . . The second of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books
Author Bio
Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Belfast where she lived until she was eighteen. She is particularly well-known for her quintet of young adult titles about Kevin and Sadie and their love across the religious divide during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The series begins with THE TWELFTH DAY OF JULY. In 1998 Joan was awarded an MBE for distinguished service to children's literature. She lives in Edinburgh and is married, with three children and five grandchildren.
