How I Live Now

Author: Meg Rosoff

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ISBN : 9780141380759
Publisher : Penguin Books
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Publication date : 31 July 2004
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Meg Rosoff
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Description

?Rarely does a writer come up with a first novel so assured, so powerful and engaging that you can be pretty sure that you will want to read everything that this author is capable of writing. But that is what has happened with Meg Rosoff?s How I Live Now.? - Observer. The compelling account of what happened in the year the narrator turned 15, she met her cousin Edmond and war came to the English countryside. Winner: Guardian Children?s Fiction Award.

Awards

Winner of Brandford Boase Award 2005 and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2004. Shortlisted for Whitbread Book Awards: Children's Book Category 2004 and Booktrust Teenage Prize 2005 and Orange Award for New Writers 2005 and British Book Awards: Children's Book of the Year 2005.

Author description

Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, USA. A brand new author to Puffin, Meg only started writing a year ago. She has worked in publishing, public relations and most recently advertising but thinks the best job in the world would be head gardener for Regents Park. Meg lives in Highbury, North London.

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