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Paperback
224 pages

Author

Meg Rosoff
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Author's Website

www.megrosoff.co.uk

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Suitable for Ages

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Publication date

5th June 2008

ISBN

9780141322469

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What I Was

Meg Rosoff

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The Lovereading comment:

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 tears but be equally uplifting as well.

Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie.

Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2007.

Synopsis

I'd been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third. But without St. Oswald's, I would not have discovered the fisherman's hut with its roaring fire, its striped blankets, its sea monster stew.

Reviews

'Readers won't just read this book, they will let it possess them' Sunday Telegraph
'Unusual and engrossing' Independent

'Extraordinary' Observer

About The 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. Her Hardyesque nineteenth century novel The Bride's Farewell was published in 2009 and her highly anticipated new novel There Is No Dog based on the idea of God being a feckless teenage boy is published in August 2011.

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