It is almost three years ago that Kevin McCoy, who is Catholic and Protestant Sadie Jackson got to know each other in the centre of the violent Northern-Ireland Conflict, the city of Belfast, but that day they meet again.
All the things that had happened before have made both of them stronger, more mature and less intolerant. And this time it won't just be a friendship connecting them, it suddenly is love, a love that has to be stronger than ever before, a love that has to stand all the hate between Catholics and Protestants that has already increased in big fights.
At first it seems simple for Sadie and Kevin, but it is much more dangerous than they would ever have thought:
It's not only "normal" people fighting them and their love, also best friends and family are resorting to violence with a view to make them forget each other.
But they don't. Kevin and Sadie succeed in standing the situation for quite a long time... till the end, till that day they have to think of emigration.
Joan Lingard's second "Kevin and Sadie" is just as good as her first one, giving it's readers an exciting insight in the northern-Ireland Conflict, and it might be because of her own experiances she made when she grow up in Belfast, that she succees in writing this novel as absorbing as nobody did before.