Jump Derry
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| File:Jump Derry (book).jpg Jump Derry book cover | |
| Author | Christine Donovan |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Sarsen Press |
Publication date | 9 April 2010 |
| Media type | Print Paperback |
| Pages | 326 pp (first edition, paperback) |
| ISBN | 978-0956470126 Search this book on  . (first edition, paperback) |
| OCLC | 610166485 |
Jump Derry won the 2011 inaugural International Rubery Book Award.[1] and is a coming-of-age novel by the British writer Christine Donovan, first published in 2010 by Sarsen Press,[2]. Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize listed the novel as one of "2011’s most unjustly neglected books"[3].
Plot summary[edit]
The book follows the story of Irish dancing champion Janie during Easter, 2005. She can win the Derry Feis but has no idea how to have a boyfriend. When her first one, Martin, is a parkour freerunner, she finds she can't keep up as he jumps and flips his way effortlessly round their city and their relationship. Janie's mum, Marianne, a victim of the Troubles, is slowly finding life unbearable, and desperately tries to find a way to cope as her life unravels. Janie and her mother struggle, but just about manage, to make sense of their world.
Characters[edit]
- Janie – teenage Irish dancing champion
- Martin – Janie's freerunning boyfriend
- Marianne – Janie's mother
Reviews[edit]
- Reviewing the work in 2011, former editor of the Derry Journal, Garbhan Downey wrote, "not since Glenn Patterson’s Burning Your Own has the despair of the conflict’s blackest period been so accurately captured"[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ "2011 Book Winners". Rubery Book Award. Archived from the original on February 14, 2022. Retrieved February 14, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Book production & printing". Sarsen Press. Archived from the original on February 14, 2022. Retrieved February 14, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Fiction Uncovered's list of 2011's most unjustly neglected books". Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Archived from the original on February 15, 2022. Retrieved February 15, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Jump Derry". Culture Northern Ireland. Archived from the original on October 14, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2022. Unknown parameter
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