Excellent read, great insight for people living outside Ireland. Fiona has no idea what she is getting into when she falls for Danny nor the danger it can bring to both of them.
Then, she meets and ultimately falls Danny, a boy from over the wall…a Protestant. Her Irish family is very much Catholic, her father fighting made bombs for the IRA, something she struggles to understand. All Editions of All the Walls of Belfast 2019, Trade paperback ISBN-13: 9781684422524 2019, Audiobook CD ISBN-13: 9781721356201 2019, MP3 format ISBN-13: 9781721356218 Books by Sarah Carlson Everything's Not Fine Starting at 4.91 Vengeance: An Ethan Kennedy Crime Novel Starting at 8.05 Novel Starting at 17. This story takes a naïve American girl, and shoves her into the sordid past she knows nothing about. Its not something typically dealt with, or talked about, in the Republic of Ireland. The Peace Wall is not only a historic reminder of “The Troubles”, but still truly relevant and representative of a very divided city.Īs an American living in Dublin, its hard to fathom the hatred which continues between Catholics and Protestants in the North. As an American, its hard to imagine the intensity of the discord that continues to this day in Belfast and parts of Northern Ireland. This is a Young Adult book, and a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story of sorts. The book and its two main characters grapple with the history of violence in Northern Ireland. All the Walls of Belfast by Sarah Carlson Sarah Carlson Turner Publishing (Mar 12, 2019) Softcover 14.99 978-1-68442-252-4 At first, Sarah Carlson’s All the Walls of Belfast comes across as a solid variation of a meet-cute young adult romance, but Carlson’s story has even more going for it.
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