Boganmeldelse af 'Across the Barricades'

Puffin Books Published the book in Great Britain in the year 1973, but the book was reprinted several times after the fist publishing in 1972.

The book contains 174 pages which are parted on 20 chapters and it costs 44,25 Danish Kroners.

Joan Lingard is a Scottish writer who was born in 1932. She's the author of the Kevin and Sadie series of books, which has sold over 1 million copies.

Joan Lingard has written six books about the relationship between Kevin and Sadie.

She began writing her first book about the relationship between Kevin and Sadie in 1970, and ended the last book 36 years later in 2006.

The Twelfth Day of July (1970)

Across the Barricades (1972)

Into Exile (1973)

A Proper Place (1975)

Hostages to Fortune (1976)

The Story Continues (2006)

Joan Lingard has also written lots of novels and picture books, but also another series for example about Maggie or Tilly. Right now Joan is busy with her new novel “After You've Gone”, witch is expected published in marts 2007.

The plot takes place in Northern Ireland, in the early seventies. In the Northern Ireland there has almost always been war between Catholics and Protestants. They have bombed, killed and hated each other in centuries. Now what happens, when a Catholic boy and a Protestant girl, fall in love in each other? That is what happens in this exiting book. Sadie Jackson and Kevin McCoy are the main characters in this thrilling story, about the forbidden love that takes place in the North of Ireland. The two main characters meet again after three years, where they haven’t seen each other. After a long chat they decide to meet again. They do that again and again, until everybody finds out about their relationship. That’s only the beginning, of getting into lots of trouble.