Book description
Yola's leg is blown off by a landmine and her life in Africa is
changed forever. When Yola travels to Ireland to be fitted with an
artificial leg and meets seventeen-year-old Fintan, she little
realises that they will soon be involved in an international arms
intrigue, and an adventure that will bring them both close to death.
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.
