Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2007.
An extraordinary story of a powerful teenage friendship that crosses all bariers. A lonely boy trying to manage the containing conversion of his boarding school meets Finn living alone in a hut near the shore. How the two build a relationship that is so important to each, despite knowing so little about each other, is wholly captivating. Once again, Meg Rossoff who has already won prizes for How I Live Now and Just In Case seems able to inhabit a teenager's mind.
Costa Book Awards 2007 Judges' comment: "Its central character caught between childhood and adulthood, this poignant and affecting book, tinged with melancholy, is both haunting and elegiac."
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.
| Reading age: | 12+ |
| Primary Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
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I was at boarding school in East Anglia, my third. I didn't want to be there.
What I Was is aimed at readers aged 12 and over.
What I Was features in the following genres: Young Adult Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Recommendations
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What I Was was written by Meg Rosoff and published by Penguin Books Ltd
What I Was has 198 pages
