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Shadows on our Skin

On sale

4th March 2002

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780747267911

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Derry in the 1970s: teenager Joe Logan is growing up in the teeth of the Troubles, having to cope with embittered parents, a brother who’s been away and come back with money and a gun in his pocket, harsh school teachers, and the constant awareness of the military presence in the background. Central to the story is the friendship that tentatively grows up between Joe and Kathleen, a young school-teacher who brings a fresh perspective to his familiar world.

Reviews

Penelope Lively, The Sunday Times
Masterly
Derek Mahon, Irish Times
She has created a world of her own... of such material is the finest literature made
John Walsh, Independent
A bittersweet demonstration of the impossibility of love... shot through with a luminous magic
Daily Telegraph
Superbly executed... both enchanted and enchanting