One inch from the wall of brown turf, he froze. 'There's something here. In the earth. A hand.' 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 it has been murdered.
As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on a hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his mum and da arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck - a little voice ceomes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.
This book is being reviewed by the children of Tenbury High, Worcestershire.
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