Description for What I Was
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: 5AN; YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210. Clean copy in good condition
Meg Rosoff, multi award winning author of How I Live Now, explores the pain of first love and coming-of-age in her compelling novel What I Was, which was once described by The Times as 'Samuel Beckett on ecstasy.'
Shall I tell you about the year I discovered love?
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.
... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children´s UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
Used, Very Good
Weight
212g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141322469
SKU
KIN0004500
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff had three or four careers in publishing and advertising before writing her highly acclaimed first novel, How I Live Now. She moved from New York City to London in 1989, where she lives with her husband and daughter. What I Was is her third novel, after How I Live Now and Just in Case, for which she was ... Read more
Reviews 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
Sunday Times 'Mesmerizing' - Daily Telegraph 'Mordantly funny and searingly well written' - The Times