The Broken Bridge

This article is about the Philip Pullman novel. For other uses, see Broken bridge.

The Broken Bridge is a 1990 young adult novel by Philip Pullman. Set in Wales around Cardigan Bay, it tells the story of Ginny Howard, a young mixed-race girl, an aspiring artist, who discovers she has a half-brother and that her mother may still be alive.^[1]

The Broken Bridge

First edition (publ. Macmillan)
Author	Philip Pullman
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Publisher	Macmillan Publishers
Publication date	1990
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Pages	176 p.
ISBN	9780330322270
OCLC	978706527

Plot

Ginny is sixteen, life is great... She's turning out to be a brilliant artist like her mother-who died when she was a baby-she loves her home by the sea and, best of all, Andy has come back for the summer. But Ginny's perfect world is about to shatter. Her father has kept a devastating secret from her and, piece by piece, she discovers that everything he has told her about herself is a lie. So who is she? Ginny must return to the dark tragedies of the past to find out.