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Format

Paperback
224 pages

Author

Sally Nicholls
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www.sallynicholls.com/

Publisher

Scholastic

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Publication date

1st September 2008

ISBN

9781407105154

Ways To Live Forever

Sally Nicholls

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Julia Eccleshare's comment:

Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award

 

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 and 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

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Synopsis

'My 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 Nichols was born in Stockton-on-Tees, just after midnight, in a thunderstorm. Her father died when she was two, and my brother Ian and I were brought up my mother. She always wanted to write - when people asked her what I wanted to be when I grew up, I used to say "I'm going to be a writer" - very definite.

After school she went and worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Japan and then travelled around Australia and New Zealand. Then she came back and did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick.

Her first book Ways to Live Forever was a multiple prize winner, see below.
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.

Photo by Eric Luke

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