What I Was
  • Published: 3 September 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141919249
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

What I Was

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3 Sep 2007
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Dark, brooding and mysterious, this is the third utterly unique book from award-winning Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now and Just in Case.

'I was at boarding school in East Anglia, my third. I didn’t want to be there. But if there had been no school, there would be no Finn. He lived in a hut on the coast. He was like the hut, in fact – it took a while for both of them to warm up. But that is all I longed for. Finn, warming to me. A nod. Half a smile. Asking me to help on the boat. Not asking me to leave. I didn’t want it to end. Now I am waiting for the end, and looking back to the beginning.'

Haunting, intense and with a surprising twist in the tale – What I Was is unlike anything you will have read before . . .
  • Published: 3 September 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141919249
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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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

How I Live Now: Popular Penguins
How I Live Now
It's a Moose!
Picture Me Gone
There Is No Dog
The Bride's Farewell
Just in Case
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Praise 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