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Joan Lingard (born 23 April 1932 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish novelist. She spent many years living in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Lingard has written novels for both adults and children

Joan Lingard (born 23 April 1932 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish novelist. Lingard has written novels for both adults and children. She is known for the teenage-aimed Kevin and Sadie series, which have sold over one million copies and have been reprinted many times since. Her first novel Liam's Daughter was an adult-oriented novel published in 1963

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The third of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books . In this third book about Sadie and Kevin, Joan Lingard has added an understanding of the strains of young marriage to the sombre representation of life in Belfast.

The third of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books, after The Twelfth of July and Across the Barricades. Protestant Sadie and Catholic Kevin have married and "escaped" to London - but will they ever really be free of Belfast and its troubles? In this third book about Sadie and Kevin, Joan Lingard has added an understanding of the strains of young marriage to the sombre representation of life in Belfast.

Lingard has written novels for both adults and children. She is probably most famous for the teenage-aimed Kevin and Sadie series, which have sold over one million copies and have been reprinted many times since. Her first novel Liam's Daughter was an adult-orientated novel published in 1963. Her first children's novel was The Twelfth Day of July (the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970. Lingard received the prestigious West German award the "Buxtehuder Bulle" in 1986 for Across the Barricades.

Explore our range of cheap books by Joan Lingard. Across the Barricades is part of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie series, the sequel to The Twelfth Day of July. Both books are part of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast. Soldiers walk the streets and the city is divided. No Catholic boy and Protestant girl can go out together - not without dangerous consequences. The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults.

Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh but grew up in Belfast where she lived until she was eighteen. Joan Lingard has three grown-up daughters and five grandchildren, and lives in Edinburgh with her Latvian/Canadian husband. She began writing when she was eleven, and has never wanted to be anything other than a writer. She is the author of more than thirty novels for young people and thirteen for adults. She was awarded an MBE for services to children's literature in 1998.

As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut-a gift that feels more like a curse. After suffering nine years of torment as a slave, he murdered his owner and escaped-only to be caught and sold into slavery once again.

Item Information:Author : Lingard, Joan. Other Details:Condition : Acceptable. Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Belfast where she lived until she was eighteen. Books spine maybe slightly creased due to age and wear. We take pride in serving you. Read full description. She began to write when she was eleven years old and always wanted to be a writer. She is particularly well-known for the Kevin and Sadie titles, beginning with THE TWELFTH DAY OF JULY, which are set against the troubled background of Ireland.

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