Meg Rosoff - Children's Author

Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, USA. She has worked in publishing, public relations and most recently advertising, but thinks the best job in the world would be head gardener for Regents Park. Meg lives in Highbury, North London.

How I Live Now was Meg Rosoff's debut novel published by Penguin in 2004. It won the Guardian and Branford Boase Awards and was short-listed for the Orange Prize for New Fiction as well as the Whitbread. It garnered the sort of rave acclaim most writers only ever dream of. Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, championed it right from the beginning, saying, 'That rare, rare thing, a first novel with a sustained, magical and utterly faultless voice. After five pages I knew that she could persuade me to believe almost anything.'

Meg wrote How I Live Now soon after her younger sister Debby died of breast cancer. Meg realised that life was too short to put off writing the novel she'd always been meaning to write. She took leave from her advertising job at J Walter Thompson and set about writing How I Live Now. A few months later Meg found herself at the heart of a bidding war between several of the UK's leading publishers. How I Live Now is dedicated to her late sister Debby.

On the verge of publishing glory in August 2004, Meg was also diagnosed with breast cancer. As wonderful reviews and prizes flooded in, she had to turn to the business of survival but has since been given the all clear.

Since How I Live Now, Meg has gone on to write several award-winning books including Just in Case, which won the coveted and most prestigious children's book prize, the Carnegie Medal in 2007, and What I Was, set in Suffolk where Meg has a second home.

 

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Featured Books, with extracts by Meg Rosoff

Moose Baby
Meg Rosoff
Interest Age Teen Reading Age 9 Award-winning Meg Rosoff is wickedly funny as well as deeply caring and empathetic in this intelligent and touching story about a teenager and her unusual baby. Being a teen mum brings opprobrium from all but...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/03/2013
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There is No Dog
Meg Rosoff
Bob created the heavens and the earth and the beasts of the field and twenty-five million other species including lots of gorgeous girls. Imagine that God is a typical teenage boy. He is lazy, careless, self-obsessed, sex-mad - and about...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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There is No Dog
Meg Rosoff
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Carnegie Medal winner Meg Rosoff gives a whole new look to life in this brilliantly entertaining novel about what if the job of being god was in the hands of a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/08/2011
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The Bride's Farewell
Meg Rosoff
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 Meg Rosoff has written another superb book for young adults, although this will be equally enjoyed by the more mature adults out there too! Pell leaves home determined not to get caught in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Vamoose! A Pocket Money Puffin
Meg Rosoff
Prize-winning author Meg Rosoff’s Vamoose!, a brilliant black comedy on the ups and downs of having any new baby but especially one who is different, is a gem. When a teen mum gives birth to a moose she and her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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What I Was
Meg Rosoff
Haunting, intense and with an incredible twist in the tale this is unlike anything you will have read before. It’s a story of friendship, love and secrets but also of tragedy and loss. It will almost certainly move you to...
Featured in: 11+ readers | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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Just In Case
Meg Rosoff
Winner of the Carnegie Award 2007 and Winner of the Costa Children's book award. A razor-sharp portrait of a teenage boy and his relationship with his image, his inner life and fate itself.  Shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie to be...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | Bookshelf Essentials | eBooks
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 07/06/2007
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Just In Case
Meg Rosoff
Winner of the Carnegie Award 2007 and the Costa Children's book award. Shortlisted for the Book Trust Teenage Prize 2007.A razor-sharp portrait of a teenage boy and his relationship with his image, his inner life and fate itself.  Shortlisted for the...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards | eBooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2006
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How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff
How I Live Now was Meg Rosoff's debut novel published by Penguin in 2004. It won the Guardian and Branford Boase Awards and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Fiction as well as the Whitbread. It garnered the...
Featured in: 11+ readers | eBooks
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 30/06/2005
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