Book description
When Katie's father returns from the Great War, he is
shell-shocked, his personality destroyed. Now, four years later he has
more or less recovered, but another war is breaking out, this time at
home in Ireland. The Treaty with the British has been signed by
Michael Collins, but many disagree with it and want to continue the
war for full independence. The country is on the brink of civil war.
There are divided loyalties in Kate's family, and she has to choose
whom she will support. Finally, she and the Welsh boy Dafydd make a
bold plan to destroy an arms cache
Aubrey Flegg was born in Dublin. His early childhood was spent in
County Sligo, Ireland. He went to school in Dublin and later in England.
After a spell with a mountain rescue team in Scotland, he returned to
Ireland to study geology at Trinity College. He then did geological
research in Kenya, before joining the Geological Survey of Ireland in
1968. Aubrey recently took early retirement in order to concentrate on
writing. His first book, Katie's War, is about the civil war period in
Ireland; it was published in 1997. Katie's War has recently won the
Peter Pan Award 2000 -- an award created by IBBY Sweden for a children's
book, translated into Swedish, which gives information on another
culture. Wings Over Delft, the first book in the Louise trilogy, won the
Bisto Book of the Year overall award in 2004.
