A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Ireland 1984.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, who is charming, eloquent, and persuasive. But when Declan suddenly leaves Ireland to seek his fortune in America, Shell finds herself pregnant and the center 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.This is a story of love and loss, religious belief and spirituality--it will move the hearts of any who read it.A Quick Pure Scream, for which she was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start author, The London Eye Mystery, and Bog Child are among Siobhan Dowd's novels. Breast cancer took her life in August of 2007.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780440422181 |
| ISBN 10 | 0440422183 |
| Title | A Swift Pure Cry |
| Author | Siobhan Dowd |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2008-09-09 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2008, Winner of Book Sense Children's Pick List 2007, Winner of Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year 2007, Short-listed for Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year 2007 |
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