The author of the book Across the Barricades, which takes place in Belfast, that lies in Northern Ireland, in the middle of the 20th century, is Joan Lingard. The book was published by Hamish Hamilton, England, and published for the first time in 1972. The book is on 174 pages, parted in 20 chapters and has a price on 83,00 Danish kroner.
Joan Lingard is a Scottish writer and was born in 1932 in Edinburgh, but grew up and lived in Belfast until she was 18 years old. She has three grown up daughters and now lives in Edinburgh again with her Canadian husbond. She began to write as an 11 year old girl and is the internationally Renowned author of several novels. Even the book series of Kevin and Sadie have sold over 1 million copies.
The stories Joan has created has mostly come out of the backgrounds of her life or people close to her, and many of her books, touch on the theme of displacement, one way or another. For Joan are the background and environment very important to her writing, Bacause her characters are formed by the environment, they have been born into or are growing up in, and also by the genes they inherit.
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