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Digging for peat in the mountain with his uncle tally, fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like shes been murdered. Bog child is a historical novel by siobhan dowd published by david fickling in september 2008. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. As the novel begins, fergus mccann and his uncle tally cross the border into southern ireland to pilfer peat from a bog.
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