# Shadows on our Skin

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- Book: [Shadows on our Skin](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-johnston/shadows-on-our-skin) ([Shadows on our Skin.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-johnston/shadows-on-our-skin.md))
- Authors: [Jennifer Johnston](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-johnston)
- Publisher: headline_review
- ISBN: 978-07-4726-791-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2002-03-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An exquisite, poignant story of an Irish boyhood in the 1970s Derry in the 1970s: teenager Joe Logan is growing up in the teeth of the Troubles, having to cope with embittered parents, a brother who's been away and come back with money and a gun in his pocket, and the constant presence of the British Army in the background. But when Joe develops a friendship with a young school teacher, a fresh perspective is brought to his familiar world. Shadows on our Skin was shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize for Fiction