{"product_id":"a-swift-pure-cry-siobhan-dowd","title":"A Swift Pure Cry","description":"\u003cp\u003eSiobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSiobhan's first novel, \u003ci\u003eA Swift Pure Cry,\u003c\/i\u003e won the Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe London Eye Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2007 NASEN \u0026amp; TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award. In March 2008, the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Children's Books Ireland Bisto Awards. Siobhan's third novel, \u003ci\u003eBog Child\u003c\/i\u003e, was the first book to be posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eA Monster Calls\u003c\/i\u003e by Patrick Ness was based on an idea of Siobhan's. Her novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Ransom of Dond\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2013, illustrated throughout by Pam Smy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Children's UK","offers":[{"title":"Softcover","offer_id":60944747037002,"sku":"A33646035","price":11.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0876\/0184\/0458\/files\/9780241331200_Front_cover.jpg?v=1769435778","url":"https:\/\/yoleooo.kids\/products\/a-swift-pure-cry-siobhan-dowd","provider":"yoleooo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}