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Marion LloydPublication date
7th January 2008ISBN
9781407105154Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Ways To Live Forever
Sally Nicholls
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Sympathetic, touching, and surprisingly funny, Ways To Live Forever is a fantastic debut from Sally Nicholls. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers for the questions nobody will answer. This diary account of a young boy dying of Leukaemia will pull on heartstrings and have you in fits of laughter at the same time. Winner of Glen Dimplex Prize for New Writers 2008 Winner of Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2008 Winner of Luchs Prize (Germany) for best children’s book published in Germany in the last year Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2009
Synopsis
Ways To Live Forever by Sally NichollsMy name is Sam. I am eleven years old. I collect stories and fantastic facts. By the time you read this I will probably be dead. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers for the questions nobody will answer.
Reviews
"A hugely impressive achievement ... elegant, intelligent, moving." Guardian
"Wonderful. Moving and funny and, yes, sad." Eva Ibbotson
"A Jodi Picoult for teens that pulls no punches." Bookseller
"Deeply affecting and life-affirming read. Impressive." Nikki Gamble, Write Away
"Supremely confident and very moving ... a writer with a great future" John McLay
"Handled tactfully, death need not be an inappropriate theme for children. On the contrary, it can be quite uplifting." Amanda Craig, The Times
"I search for novels that send electrical tingles up my spine. Reading this was more like being plugged into a 1000-volt socket. This is a story for everyone, whatever their age." Marion Lloyd, Publisher
About The Author
Sally Nicholls was born in Stockton-on-Tees, just after midnight, in a thunderstorm. Her father died when she was two, and she and her brother Ian were brought up her mother. She always wanted to write - when people asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, 'I used to say 'I'm going to be a writer' - very definite.'
After school she worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Japan and then travelled around Australia and New Zealand, followed by a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick.
Her first book Ways to Live Forever was a multiple prize winner:
Winner of Glen Dimplex Prize for New Writers 2008
Winner of Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2008
Winner of Luchs Prize (Germany) for best children’s book published in Germany in the last year
Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2009
She now lives in a little flat in London. She has a part-time job as an administrator for a charity called Effective Intervention. The rest of her time is spent writing stories and trying to believe her luck.
You can see some of Sally's Writer's Notes on Facebook - click here.
Photo by Eric Luke
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