# The Broken Bridge > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Broken_Bridge > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Broken_Bridge.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broken_Bridge > Source revision: 1354743889 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1990 novel by Philip Pullman This article is about the Philip Pullman novel. For other uses, see [Broken bridge](/source/Broken_bridge_(disambiguation)). 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 ***The Broken Bridge*** is a 1990 young adult novel by [Philip Pullman](/source/Philip_Pullman). Set in Wales around [Cardigan Bay](/source/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] ## 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. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["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"](https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-679-81972-1). - [Children and Young Adult Literature portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Children_and_Young_Adult_Literature) v t e Works by Philip Pullman Sally Lockhart The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) The Shadow in the North (1986) The Tiger in the Well (1990) The Tin Princess (1994) His Dark Materials Original novels Northern Lights (1995) The Subtle Knife (1997) The Amber Spyglass (2000) Companion books Lyra's Oxford (2003) Once Upon a Time in the North (2008) Serpentine (2020) The Book of Dust La Belle Sauvage (2017) The Secret Commonwealth (2019) The Rose Field (2025) Other The Haunted Storm (1972) Galatea (1978) Count Karlstein (1982) How to be Cool (1987) The Broken Bridge (1990) The Butterfly Tattoo (1992) The Firework-Maker's Daughter (1995) Clockwork (1996) I Was a Rat! or, The Scarlet Slippers (1999) The Scarecrow and his Servant (2004) The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2010) This article about a young adult novel of the 1990s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1990s-ya-novel-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1990s-ya-novel-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1990s-ya-novel-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Broken Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broken_Bridge) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broken_Bridge?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.