What I Was
Author(s): Meg Rosoff
From the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller How I Live Now, National Book Award finalist Picture Me Gone, and most recently Jonathan Unleashed Finn was a beautiful orphan. H was a prep school misfit. On a September afternoon many years ago they met on a beach on the coast of England, near the ancient fisherman's hut Finn was squatting in with his woodstove, a case of books, a striped blanket and a cat. H insinuates his way into Finn's life--his blazing wood fires and fishing expeditions. Their friendship deepens, offering H the freedom and human connection that has always eluded him. But all too soon the idyll of their relationship is shaken by a heart-wrenching scandal. What I Was is the unforgettable story of H at the end of his life looking back on this friendship, which has shaped and obsessed him for nearly a century.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books
- : Penguin Books
- : 0.224
- : 01 September 2007
- : United Kingdom
- : 10 September 2023
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Meg Rosoff
- : Paperback
- : Open market ed
- : [Fic]
- : 199
- : Fiction
More About The Product
Runner-up for New Angle Prize for Literature 2009. Shortlisted for Costa Children's Book Award 2007 and Carnegie Medal 2008.