What I Was
  • Published: 3 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141322469
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $27.99

What I Was

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Now in paperback, the third stunning and unforgettable novel from bestselling author Meg Rosoff - winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal.

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.

Without St. Oswald's, I would not have met the boy with the beautiful eyes, the flickering half-smile, and no past.

Without St. Oswald's, I would not have met Finn.

And without Finn, there would be no story.

Shall we begin?
  • Published: 3 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141322469
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Meg Rosoff

Meg was born in Boston, USA but now lives in Highbury, London with her husband, the painter Paul Hamlyn, and their daughter Gloria.

How I Live Now was Meg Rosoff's debut novel, which 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.'

Since How I Live Now, Meg has gone on to write several award-winning books for teenagers including Just in Case, What I Was and The Bride's Farewell. She has also written Jumpy Jack and Googily, Meet Wild Boars and Wild Boars Cook for very young children and a special pocket money Puffin called Vamoose!

Visit Meg's website at www.megrosoff.co.uk.

Keep up to date and visit Meg's blog.

Also by Meg Rosoff

It's a Moose!
Picture Me Gone
There Is No Dog
The Bride's Farewell
How I Live Now: Popular Penguins
How I Live Now
Just in Case
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Praise for What I Was

Praise for What I Was: 'Already a classic' - Sunday Times 'Mesmerizing' - Daily Telegraph 'Mordantly funny and searingly well written' - The Times