How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Dec. 26th, 2009 03:53 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Fifteen-year-old New Yorker 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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The Verdict:
Winner of the Guardian’s Children’s Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers, the Whitbread Children’s Book Prize and the Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, this is a beautifully told novel about a young girl having to deal with awful circumstances.
Fifteen-year-old New Yorker 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?
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Winner of the Guardian’s Children’s Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers, the Whitbread Children’s Book Prize and the Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, this is a beautifully told novel about a young girl having to deal with awful circumstances.