Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. When their journey is intercepted by a military group, Val and Pippa are kidnapped and must try to escape before Val's identity is discovered.Ĭhoose your shipping method in Checkout. The experience is shocking for Valentina as she witnesses the lives of the refugees and their families. Desperate to see her older brother, a soldier with the pro-refugee group Solidarity, Valentina plans an undercover trip to the Amber Zone with her friends Pippa and Damien and government official Joshua. Refugees from all over the world have fled fire and floods to escape to Ireland, but the original Tribe despise their presence, and violence rages throughout the country. At the age of 14, she has never been outside of the green zone and knows little of the Badlands or the world beyond. Valentina, the President's daughter, leads a privileged life in the Citadel. Desperate to see her older brother, a soldier with the pro-refugee group Solidarity, Valentina plans an undercover trip to the Amber Zone with her friends Pippa. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Valentina, the President's daughter, leads a privileged life in the Citadel. He'd love to see a film version of Valentina with Tom Waits providing the soundtrack. He was so taken with Lovelock's ideas that he a) went to Italy for three months and wrote the novel and b) moved to a new house way above sea level. Kevin got the idea for Valentina when he read one of James Lovelock's books on climate change. The magazine runs an annual poetry competition for young poets. He works in teacher education and is editor ofTeaching English magazine. He is waiting for the Film Board to move to Mullingar to secure production funding. His pet project is a film script on a Joe Dolan tribute band. He has published two novels and written for both Sunday Miscellany and The Quiet Corner. The first was on Picasso's involvement with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes the second was on music in the novels of Kate O'Brien. Decades ago he wrote and presented two radio documentaries. RTE broadcast two of his plays, one inspired by the life of the poet Ray Carver the other inspired by Sylvia Plath's poem 'The Arrival of the Bee-Box'. Litt in English Literature, and a PhD in Education. Kevin was a swot in school and went on to study English and Old and Middle English in college. Son Eoghan lives in London and daughter Aoife lives in Cardiff.

Kevin Mc Dermott lives in Dublin with his funny, smart wife, Mary, their daughter, Sinead (Roe), and the family cat, Brunelleschi.

Valentina by Kevin McDermott