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Before I Die
Jenny Downham
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Description for Before I Die
Paperback. Tessa has just a few months to live. So she compiles her bucket list, her To Do Before I Die list. Number one is sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 199 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Tessa has just a few months to live. So she compiles her bucket list, her To Do Before I Die list. Number one is sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Heartbreaking yet astonishingly life-affirming, Before I Die will take you to the very edge.
Tessa has just a few months to live. So she compiles her bucket list, her To Do Before I Die list. Number one is sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Heartbreaking yet astonishingly life-affirming, Before I Die will take you to the very edge.
Product Details
Publisher
Definitions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909531161
SKU
V9781909531161
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99-99
About Jenny Downham
Jenny Downham was an actress for many years before concentrating on her writing full-time. She lives in London with her two sons. Her debut novel Before I Die was critically acclaimed and was shortlisted for the 2007 Guardian Award and the 2008 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year, nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize, and won the 2008 Branford Boase Award.
Reviews for Before I Die
Novels for young teenagers do not usually feature drugs and casual sex within the first 20-odd pages. But most books for teenagers will not leave an adult reader's eyes so blurry with tears that it's hard to see the final chapters. Jenny Downham's extraordinary first novel does both
The Sunday Times
This is an affecting and brave novel. Tessa is such a rich character . . . For everyone, it is a reminder to value the people that matter, seize the moment, wish with courage, adventure with relish, even if it's just a trip to the swimming pool, drinking hot chocolate or driving down a dual carriageway in the rain
Guardian
Destined to drive hundreds of thousands of readers to tears and to swift injunctions to all their friends to read it
Observer
Before I Die is so real, so sad, so true - and I so wish I'd written it myself
Jacqueline Wilson
Tough but tender, angry rather than resigned, Tessa is an appealing heroine whose company is never less than bracing
Independent
The Sunday Times
This is an affecting and brave novel. Tessa is such a rich character . . . For everyone, it is a reminder to value the people that matter, seize the moment, wish with courage, adventure with relish, even if it's just a trip to the swimming pool, drinking hot chocolate or driving down a dual carriageway in the rain
Guardian
Destined to drive hundreds of thousands of readers to tears and to swift injunctions to all their friends to read it
Observer
Before I Die is so real, so sad, so true - and I so wish I'd written it myself
Jacqueline Wilson
Tough but tender, angry rather than resigned, Tessa is an appealing heroine whose company is never less than bracing
Independent