Guard Your Heart
Age 12 +
01 April 2021Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Synopsis
Guard Your Heart is the Carnegie shortlisted debut novel from Sue Divin.
Boy meets girl on the Northern Irish border.
Derry. Summer 2016. Aidan and Iona, now eighteen, were both born on the day of the Northern Ireland peace deal.
Aidan is Catholic, Irish, and Republican. With his ex-political prisoner father gone and his mother dead, Aidan’s hope is pinned on exam results...
Details
01 April 2021416 pages
9781529041675Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Reviews
Profoundly powerful, subtle and effective, this superb debut evokes the deep-rooted mistrust... lingering in the wake of the Troubles, as well as a new, tentative flowering of hope and love.Imogen Russell-Williams, Guardian
a compelling, engaging narrativeClaire Hennessy, Irish Times
Divin skilfully maintains two attractively distinct voices [and]... sets her story with an insider's knowledge of the dynamics of Derry... absorbing.Geoff Fox, Books for Keeps
