It's what convinced me to try the audiobook in the first place. This body speaks to him in his dreams, and despite being an atheist - and presumably a materialist - he is profoundly affected by these visitations, I guess. He has found an ancient body, perfectly preserved, in the bog. The reader has a beautiful lilting voice.īog child narrates a few months in the life of Fergus, a teenager in Northern Ireland during the troubles, as he navigates studies, love, and the anguish of his dear brother being in prison. ‘Count me in?’ ‘You know.’ Michael’s hand circled the air, like a royal wave." The only downside was that in the audiobook it's hard to tell when things are happening in Mel's voice- those sections are italicized in the book but the reader doesn't differentiate them much. If we can count you in?’ He said it as if he was inviting Fergus on a fishing expedition. "Michael crossed one leg over the other and put his hand around the back of Fergus’s seat. It's subdued, you're just getting through the day to day with Fergus. There is a lot going on in his life but this book is not one of those YA tragic dramas. This book is very focused on Fergus and he is just a great character, I loved reading him. After finding a 2,000 year old body of a girl in a peat bog, he dreams of her life while muddling through his own. Fergus McCann is 18, living on the border of Northern Ireland in 1981, trying to pass A levels and cope with IRA pressure and a brother in prison. Yes I consider Northern Ireland postcolonial. Read for 2018 Read Harder Challenge categories a book published posthumously and a book of colonial or postcolonial literature.
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