The Bride's Farewell
  • Published: 3 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141323404
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99

The Bride's Farewell

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A haunting, romantic novel from the award-winning Meg Rosoff.

On the morning of her wedding, Pell Ridley creeps out of bed in the dark, kisses her sisters goodbye and flees - determined to escape a future that offers nothing but hard work and sorrow. She takes the only thing that truly belongs to her: Jack, a white horse.

The road ahead is rich with longing, silence and secrets, and each encounter leads her closer to the untold story of her past. Then Pell meets a hunter, infuriating, mysterious and cold. Will he help her to find what she seeks?

With all the hallmarks of Meg Rosoff's extraordinary writing, The Bride's Farewell also breaks new ground for this author, in a nineteenth-century, Hardyesque setting. This is a moving story of love and lost things, with a core of deep, beautiful romance.
  • Published: 3 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141323404
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • 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
How I Live Now: Popular Penguins
How I Live Now
What I Was
Just in Case
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Praise for The Bride's Farewell

A poetically charged romance, full of thorny emotional dilemmas...Meg Rosoff has created a feisty 19th-century heroine whose troubles and travails are strikingly salient in the world of modern romance

Marie Claire

An engaging, impeccably-written novel

Independent on Sunday

Masterful describes the whole of this narrative. Rosoff not only knows how to tell a tale, she is unashamed of telling it

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