Bog Child is a historical novel by Siobhan Dowd published by David Fickling (UK) and Random House Children's Books (US) on 9 September 2008,[2] more than a year after her death.

[3] Set in the 1980s amid the backdrop of the Troubles of Northern Ireland, it features an 18-year-old boy who must study for exams but experiences "his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for the provisional IRA, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.

Dowd and Bog Child were named winners of the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K.[4][5][6] The novel is set in the 1980s.

He opens many conversations with Owain when he goes back to the site of the bog child, Fergus meets Cora and Felicity O'Brien, a girl his age and her archaeologist mother.

Through a series of dreams, Fergus sees the events leading to Mel's death with Rur stabbing her at her request because she did not want to "feel the noose" around her neck.

[7] Bog Child received many accolades: In review for The Guardian, Meg Rosoff commends Dowd for being "incapable of a jarring phrase or a lazy metaphor.

[15] BookTrust Children's Books commends Fergus for being "an immensely likeable character whose story, along with that of the bog child, will long stay with those who read it".