Author:Meg Rosoff
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.
Without St Oswald's, I would not have met the boy with the beautiful eyes, the flickering half-smile, and no past.
Without St Oswald's I would not have met Finn.
And without Finn, there would be no story.
Shall we begin?
' . . . thrilling and sensitively told' - Observer
' . . . mordantly funny and searingly well written' - The Times
Bestselling author Meg Rosoff has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her first novel How I Live Now (winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize). Her other novels, Just in Case (winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal) and The Bride's Farewell, are also available from Puffin. Follow Meg on Twitter @megrosoff.
James' finest working of his preoccupation with the theme of innocence corrupted... James is the master of making what is not said the most important thing on the page
—— Kate AtkinsonA brilliant social comedy seen wholly from a child’s point of view, this is a dazzling technical feat that, as always with James, deepens as it develops — like the life of the child herself. An exhilarating prelude to the great novels of his famous late phase
—— Alan Hollinghurst , New York TimesContains some of his best comedy and some of his most melancholy insights...embodies everything that James excelled at in fiction
—— Paul TherouxHenry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry
—— Graham GreenePerfect
—— F. R. LeavisAn ugly little comedy
—— Henry JamesPart of the pleasure of reading Tom Sharpe lies in his cheerful penchant for anachronism and whimsy.
—— Guardian[a] rollicking plot
—— Sunday TimesThe funniest novel writing today
—— The TimesEvery single one of her books is a great read
—— E! OnlineStaggeringly brilliant, literally unputdownable
—— Sophie HannahKeeps you guessing until the very end - perfect summer read
—— Reese WitherspoonMoriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly
—— Sunday ExpressThe writing is beautiful: sometimes funny, sometimes sad but always compelling
—— Good HousekeepingLike drinking a pink cosmo laced with arsenic . . . a fun, engaging and sometimes disturbing read
—— USA TodayRiveting drama packed with suspense and secrets
—— Woman & HomeWise, honest, beautifully observed. One of the few writers I'll drop anything for
—— Jojo MoyesStraight-from-life characters, knife-sharp insight and almost unbearable suspense will have you racing through it
—— Good HousekeepingPerfect
—— Hello!A hell of a good book. Funny and scary
—— Stephen KingA cracking story cleverly told
—— FabulousFascinating and compassionate
—— Daily Telegraph
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