{{short description|1990 novel by Philip Pullman}} {{About|the Philip Pullman novel||Broken bridge (disambiguation){{!}}Broken bridge}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox book | name = The Broken Bridge | title_orig = | image = TheBrokenBridge.jpg | caption = First edition (publ. [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]) | author = Philip Pullman | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = Fiction | publisher = [[Macmillan Publishers]] | pub_date = 1990 | media_type = Print | pages = 176 p. | isbn = 9780330322270 | oclc = 978706527 }}

'''''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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-679-81972-1|title = Children's Book Review: Broken Bridge by Philip Pullman, Author, Floyd Cooper, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-81972-1}}</ref>

==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.

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