| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Swift Pure Cry | 2006 | Siobhan Dowd | Buy |
| 2 | The Ransom of Dond | 2013 | Siobhan Dowd | Buy |
Siobhan Dowd’s standalone novels are A Swift Pure Cry (2006), her debut set in 1980s rural Ireland, and The Ransom of Dond (2013), published posthumously. Both books show Dowd’s ability to write about difficult subjects — poverty, religious hypocrisy, and the pressures placed on young people — with honesty and without sentimentality.
There are two books in the Siobhan Dowd Standalone Novels series, published between 2006 and 2013.
The first book in the Siobhan Dowd Standalone Novels series is A Swift Pure Cry, published in 2006.
A Swift Pure Cry is set in 1980s rural Ireland and follows Shell, a teenager dealing with her alcoholic father and the rigid moral codes of her community after a family tragedy. It was Dowd’s first published novel.
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