JOAN LINGARD was an acclaimed author of over 40 books for both children and adults. She was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Belfast, the inspiration for many of her novels, including the ground-breaking Across the Barricades. She was awarded the MBE in 1998 for Services to Children's Literature. The Kiss was the result of a long-standing personal fascination with the painter Gwen John. Joan Lingard died in July 2022.
8 Ebooks by Joan Lingard
Joan Lingard: Encarnita’s Journey
It is 1920 and the beautiful village of Yegen, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, awakens to a new year and two events that are to change the pueblo for ever: the birth of Encarnita, a beautiful …
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Joan Lingard: After You’ve Gone
Willa is a polite and respectable young woman, trying to cope with the tedium of her life whilst her husband is away on a year-long cruise with the Navy. Living with a controlling mother-in-law only …
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Joan Lingard: The Kiss
Cormac, born and brought up in Belfast, living now in Edinburgh with his wife and children, is an art teacher, an admirer of Rodin and a sculptor himself. When he tries to transmit his enthusiasm for …
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Joan Lingard: Sign of the Black Dagger
One day, Will and Lucy’s dad just … vanishes.They have no idea why he’s disappeared until a creepy stranger reveals their dad was keeping a BIG secret. Then there’s the second clue: an old diary …
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Joan Lingard: Into Exile
The third of Joan Lingard’s ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books, after The Twelfth of July and Across the Barricades.Protestant Sadie and Catholic Kevin have married and "escaped" to …
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Joan Lingard: The Twelfth Day of July
The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingard”s influential Kevin and Sadie books, set in Belfast during the Troubles. It is one of The Originals from Penguin – iconic, outspoken, first. Sadie is …
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Joan Lingard: Across the Barricades
Across the Barricades is part of Joan Lingard”s ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie series, the sequel to The Twelfth Day of July. Both books are part of The Originals from Penguin – iconic, outspoken, …
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Joan Lingard: Natasha’s Will
Natasha’s story is set against the background of the Russian Revolution as she and her family flee persecution. Her story is dramatically and cleverly linked with the present as her heirs search for …
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