“Compassionate, honest, and hopeful, All The Walls of Belfast celebrates the power of first love to build bridges and scale walls. But one ugly truth might shatter what they have…. Danny and Fiona must help one another overcome the burden of their parents’ pasts. Fiona’s mom fled with her to the United States when she was two, but, fourteen years after the Troubles ended, a forty-foot-tall peace wall still separates her dad’s Catholic neighborhood from Danny’s Protestant neighborhood.Īfter chance brings Fiona and Danny together, their love of the band Fading Stars, big dreams, and desire to run away from their families unites them. Seventeen-year-olds, Fiona and Danny must choose between their dreams and the people they aspire to be.įiona and Danny were born in the same hospital. The Carnival at Bray meets West Side Story in Sarah Carlson’s powerful YA debut set in post-conflict Belfast (Northern Ireland), alternating between two teenagers, both trying to understand their past and preserve their future.
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