“One night by the bedroom door I heard them and he was saying: ‘Who’s the good man?’ And they said, ‘King Billy’. “He would tell them bedtime stories, and I could hear them laughing. We argued, but in spite of that, I liked him, which made you think more about it, and he also got on well with my kids, who were all under five. Lingard received the prestigious West German award the 'Buxtehuder Bulle' in 1986 for Across the Barricades. “She was only recently married, to an Orangeman. Her first childrens novel was The Twelfth Day of July(the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970. In an interview with the Irish Post in 1998, Ms Lingard described how she had been inspired to create the characters of Kevin and Sadie after a friend from Belfast came to visit her at her home in Edinburgh. What characters are in favour of conflict in the novel What indicators are there of this THEMES OF THE NOVEL.

The Twelfth Day of July Kevin and Sadie 1. “A love story set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the emotions she shared, the situation she portrayed so vividly still resonate with young people today.” Tommy and Sadie Jackson are already looking forward to the 12th day of July which is a Protestant celebration day. The managing director of Penguin Random House Children’s, Francesca Dow, told The Bookseller that Ms Lingard was “an incredible writer who gave us some of the most important stories of her time” and her Kevin and Sadie books were “essential reading”.

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