The Broken Bridge
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| The Broken Bridge | |
 Reprint edition (November 1994) cover |
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| Author | Philip Pullman |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
| Publication date | 1990 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 224 pp (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0679847151 |
The Broken Bridge is a 1990 book by Philip Pullman.
It centers around a 16 year old girl, Ginny Howard, and is mainly about growing up, like his other works. Ginny must surrender the private world she and her dad shared when a half brother she did not know existed must stay with her, spurring her to find out the truth about her supposedly dead mother.
The book mentions the small north Welsh village of 'Llangynog' and a nearby town, 'Porthafon'. These names are based on the real locations of Llandanwg and Porthmadog, and the book mentions 'an old church half buried in the sand', an airstrip some miles away, and a 'decaying wooden bridge the railway crossed the estuary on'. These are the real life Llandanwg church, which is buried in sand, the Llanbedr airstrip, and the bridge of the Cambrian Coast Line Railway over the Afon Artro.
Philip Pullman has said he wrote about Ginny making the same discoveries about herself as well as the world around her that he made when he was growing up, in the same villages.[citation needed]
