Across the Barricades (Kevin and Sadie, #2) by

Joan Lingard

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Original Title: Across the Barricades (Kevin and Sadie, #2)

ISBN: 0448056844
ISBN13: 9780840762801
Autor: Joan Lingard
Rating: 3.3 of 5 stars (1111) counts
Original Format: Paperback, 174 pages
Download Format: PDF, DJVU, iBook, MP3.
Published: January 28th 1973 / by Thomas Nelson Publishers / (first published January 2nd
1973)
Language: English
Genre(s):
Young Adult- 23 users
Fiction- 14 users
Childrens- 11 users
Historical Fiction- 9 users
Romance- 8 users
Academic >School- 8 users

Description:

Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast.
Soldiers walk the streets and the city is divided. No Catholic boy and Protestant girl can go out
together - not without dangerous consequences . . . The second of Joan Lingard's ground-
breaking Kevin and Sadie books

About Author:
Lingard has written novels for both adults and children. She is probably most famous for the
teenage-aimed Kevin and Sadie series, which have sold over one million copies and have been
reprinted many times since.
Her first novel Liam's Daughter was an adult-orientated novel published in 1963. Her first
children's novel was The Twelfth Day of July (the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970.
Lingard received the prestigious West German award the "Buxtehuder Bulle" in 1986 for Across
the Barricades. Tug of War has also received great success: shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal
1989, The Federation of Children's Book Group Award 1989, runner up in the Lancashire
Children's Book Club of the year 1990 and shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award. In 1998, her
book Tom and the Tree House won the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award. Her most
recent novel, What to Do About Holly was released in August 2009.
Lingard was awarded an MBE in 1998 for services to children's literature.[
Lingard was born in Edinburgh, in the old mile but grew up in Belfast in Holland gardens where
she lived until she was 18. She attended Strandtown Primary and then got a scholarship into
Bloomfied Collegiate. She has three daughters and five grandchildren, and now lives in Edinburgh
with her Canadian husband.

Other Editions:
- Across The Barricades (Paperback)

- Across The Barricades (Hardcover)

- Across the Barricades (Kevin and Sadie, #2)

- Across the Barricades (Kevin and Sadie, #2)

- Across the Barricades (Paperback)

Books By Author:

- The Twelfth Day of July (Kevin and Sadie, #1)

 - Into Exile (Kevin and Sadie, #3)

- A Proper Place (Kevin and Sadie, #4)

- Hostages to Fortune (Kevin and Sadie, #5)

- Natasha's Will

Books In The Series:

 - The Twelfth Day of July (Kevin and Sadie, #1)

- Into Exile (Kevin and Sadie, #3)

- A Proper Place (Kevin and Sadie, #4)

- Hostages to Fortune (Kevin and Sadie, #5)

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Rewiews:

Sep 21, 2016

Aoife
Rated it: it was amazing
Shelves: childhood-favourite, blast-from-the-past, irish, audiobook, ya, irish-author
4.5 stars
The Kevin and Sadies series is based around two teenagers living in Belfast, Northern Ireland,
during a time where there is great tension between the protestants and catholics living in the area,
aka The Troubles. Kevin and Sadie used to be enemies but now at 17 and 18 years old, they
meet again and end up falling in love at a time when no-one wants them to be together.
This is a book series I originally read as a child and I was really happy to see it up as an
audiobook in my librar
4.5 stars
The Kevin and Sadies series is based around two teenagers living in Belfast, Northern Ireland,
during a time where there is great tension between the protestants and catholics living in the area,
aka The Troubles. Kevin and Sadie used to be enemies but now at 17 and 18 years old, they
meet again and end up falling in love at a time when no-one wants them to be together.
This is a book series I originally read as a child and I was really happy to see it up as an
audiobook in my librarys e-services. It was fantastic getting back into the story and remembering
the finer details of Kevin and Sadies Romeo and Juliet story that I had forgotten. This was
narrated by Gerard Murphy who did a great job and I loved that he was also Northern Irish so
everyones accents were correct, and I also find that accent to be extremely soothing and nice to
listen to so bonus points. This is marketed as a series for children aged 10+ which I do find a bit
odd as Kevin and Sadie are teenagers and the series does go on to explore their eventual
marriage and family life but as a kid this didnt bother me at all so I guess it was all okay then and
all okay now.
This is a book that looks finely at the tensions during The Troubles - a time when a Catholic boy
couldnt walk out with a Protestant girl without getting beat up. Kevin and Sadie have to live with
violence every single day and the reader is with them as their tolerance grows less and less with
the way theyre forced to live and hide their relationship. Kevin has to work hard to not be forced
into doing violent things he doesnt want to do and not become involved with old schoolfriends
being involved with the IRA, or IRA activities. Sadies father is in the Orange Order, and her own
brother has to constantly explain to others why he himself doesnt want to join up as he is also sick
of violence.
I was sad near the end of the book as I had forgotten one of the things that did happen and it is
quite heartbreaking. But Im definitely going to reread the rest of the series as I had forgotten how
much I loved it.
Note: This is technically the second book in the series but I actually think it can be read as the first,
as the first is a bit of a prequel from when they were children and you more or less find out what
happens in that one in Across the Barricades.
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