What I was (Paperback)

Meg ROSOFF

ISBN 10: 0141322462 / ISBN 13: 9780141322469

Published by Penguin, 2008

About this Item

A first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing.  Unread.  Some tanning to pages. SYNOPSIS:  "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 wouldn't have discovered the fisherman's hut with its roaring fire, its stripped blankets and its sea monster stew!" IN STOCK READY FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What I was (Paperback)
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141322462
• ISBN 13: 9780141322469
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Rising star Meg Rosoff delivers a piercing and magical story about friendship and humanity.

In the not too distant future, a one-hundred-year-old man called H sails the eastern coast of England with his godson. H recalls when he himself was sixteen —his godson'’s age— as they search for the site of H’'s life-altering friendship with a boy named Finn. Finn lives alone on an isolated slip of land and follows no rules: he spends his days swimming, fishing, and collecting driftwood for his tiny beach hut. H, on the other hand, is an upper-class boarding school boy stifled by monotony and endless rules. They meet by chance on the beach, and H is immediately awed by (and jealous of) Finn'’s way of life. They strike up an unlikely friendship but the gap between their lives becomes difficult to bridge, and before long the idyll that nurtured their relationship is shattered by heart-wrenching scandal.

Meg Rosoff was formerly a YA author, but her work transcends categorization and we are delighted to bring it to adult readers for the first time. What I Was is a timeless, enthralling story destined to become a classic.

About the Author

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 awarded the Carnegie Medal.