What I Was - Rosoff, Meg
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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. He lived in a hut on the coast. He was like the hut, in fact - it took a while for both of them to warm up. But that is all I longed for. Finn, warming to me. A nod. Half a smile. Asking me to help on the boat. Not asking me to leave. I didn't want it to end. Now I am waiting for the end, and looking back to the beginning." Haunting, intense and with a surprising twist in the tale - this is unlike anything you will have read before ...

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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. He lived in a hut on the coast. He was like the hut, in fact - it took a while for both of them to warm up. But that is all I longed for. Finn, warming to me. A nod. Half a smile. Asking me to help on the boat. Not asking me to leave. I didn't want it to end. Now I am waiting for the end, and looking back to the beginning." Haunting, intense and with a surprising twist in the tale - this is unlike anything you will have read before ...
Autorenporträt
Bevor sie anfing zu schreiben, arbeitete Meg Rosoff in vielen verschiedenen Jobs, unter anderem im Verlagswesen und in der Werbung. 1989 zog sie von New York nach London, wo sie heute mit ihrem Mann und ihrer Tochter lebt. Ihre Romane wurden mehrfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis. In Großbritannien stand sie mit "So lebe ich jetzt" lange auf der Bestsellerliste für Erwachsene. Meg Rosoff wurde 2016 mit dem "Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) ausgezeichnet.