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Sympathetic, touching, and surprisingly funny, Ways To Live Forever is a fantastic debut from Sally Nicholls. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers for the questions nobody will answer. This diary account of a young boy dying of Leukaemia will pull on heartstrings and have you in fits of laughter at the same time.
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2008.
Winner of the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award 2008.
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Synopsis
Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
My name is Sam. I am eleven years old. I collect stories and fantastic facts. By the time you read this I will probably be dead. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers for the questions nobody will answer.
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'Poignant, amusing and honest, this is a wonderful debut novel.' Bookseller
About the Author
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Sally Nichols was born in Stockton-on-Tees, just after midnight, in
a thunderstorm. Her father died when she was two, and my brother Ian
and I were brought up my mother. She always wanted to write - when
people asked her what I wanted to be when I grew up, I used to say "I'm
going to be a writer" - very definite.
After school she went and worked in a Red Cross Hospital in
Japan and then travelled around Australia and New Zealand. Then she
came back and did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick.
Her first book Ways to Live Forever was a multiple prize winner, see below.
Winner of Glen Dimplex Prize for New Writers 2008
Winner of Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2008
Winner of Luchs Prize (Germany) for best children’s book published in Germany in the last year
Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2009
She now lives in a little flat in London. She has a part-time job as an administrator for a charity called Effective Intervention. The rest of her time is spent writing stories, and trying to believe her luck.
Photo by Eric Luke
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