The Broken Bridge is an insightful & heartfelt story of a teenager`s search for her own identity in the face of heartbreaking family secrets by Philip Pullman, author of the award-winning Northern Lights. Sixteen-year-old Ginny`s life is secure. Her mother is dead, but she`s inherited her outstanding artistic talent, & she loves her life with her father in a seaside village in Wales. But the day a social worker arrives & old files are re-opened, Ginny`s world cracks apart. Everything her father has told her about her family is a lie. & Ginny must uncover the hidden secrets of the past on a journey that will ultimately lead her to the mother she`s never known.. .