Shadows on our Skin
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1970s
A01=Jennifer Johnston
Author_Jennifer Johnston
Category=FBA
childhood
Derry
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family
Ireland
school
secrets
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Troubles
William Trevor
Product details
- ISBN 9780747267911
- Weight: 162g
- Dimensions: 131 x 199mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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An exquisite, poignant story of an Irish boyhood in the 1970s
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, and the constant presence of the British Army in the background.
But when Joe develops a friendship with a young school teacher, a fresh perspective is brought to his familiar world.
Shadows on our Skin was shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize for Fiction
Jennifer Johnston, who died in 2025, was one of the foremost Irish writers of her generation. She won the Whitbread Prize (THE OLD JEST), the Evening Standard Best First Novel Award (for THE CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS), the Yorkshire Post Award, Best Book of the Year (twice, for THE CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS and HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON?). She was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize with SHADOWS ON OUR SKIN.
