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Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met. They are Isaac, Edmond, Osbert and Piper.
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"How I Live Now" is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond, torn apart as war breaks out in London, from the multi award-winning Meg Rosoff. "How I Live Now" has been adapted for the big screen by Kevin Macdonald, starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy and releases in 2013. Fifteen-year-old Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. There she'll discover what real love is: something violent, mysterious and wonderful. There her world will be turned upside down and a perfect summer will explode into a million bewildering pieces. How will Daisy live then? "Fresh, honest, rude, funny. I put it down with tears on my face". (Julie Myerson, "Guardian"). "Assured, powerful, engaging ...you will want to read everything that Rosoff is capable of writing". ("Observer"). "An unforgettable adventure". ("Sunday 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), "The Bride's Farewell" and "What I Was" which was described by "The Times" as 'Samuel Beckett on ecstasy', are also available from Puffin. Follow Meg on Twitter @megrosoff.
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Foyles
How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond, torn apart as war breaks out in London, from the multi award-winning Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now has been adapted for the big screen by Kevin Macdonald, starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy and releases in 2013. Fifteen-year-old Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. There she'll discover what real love is: something violent, mysterious and wonderful. There her world will be turned upside down and a perfect summer will explode into a million bewildering pieces. How will Daisy live then?
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TheBookPeople
Meg Rosoff's debut novel, How I Live Now is set in a rural English idyll that is devastated following the outbreak of war. Daisy, the 15-year-old narrator, arrives in the UK from America to stay with her English cousins, Isaac, Edmond, Osbert and Piper. Daisy quickly falls in love with the cousins' eccentric way of life and with one cousin in particular. But the arrival of war throws their existence into chaos and tests their survival skills and resourcefulness to the limit! With Daisy's brilliant and original voice, Meg Rosoff has created a dark, engrossing teen novel for readers 12.
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BookDepository
How I Live Now : Paperback : Penguin Random House Children's UK : 9780141318011 : : 13 Jan 2016 : Fifteen-year-old Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. There she'll discover what real love is: something violent, mysterious and wonderful.
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Penguin
It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History. But let's face it, that would be crap. Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met.
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Blackwell
Fifteen-year-old Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. There she'll discover what real...
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RedHouse
Meg Rosoff's award-winning book, How I Live Now, is a beautiful descriptive novel with a fierce and funny 15-year-old narrator and a powerful, enthralling plot.
- 0141318015
- 9780141318011
- Meg Rosoff
- 3 June 2010
- Puffin
- Paperback (Book)
- 224
- Re-issue
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