The Golden Rule, the Rule of Law, the fortress of maxims and tenets, canons and commandments we build to keep chaos at bay thoroughly fail young Hilary, the protagonist of Meg Rosoff's novel "What I ...
Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now is a particularly daring young adult novel that tackles the topics of war, young love, anorexia, and even incest. Published in 2004, it was a "word-of-mouth" best-seller ...
American-born, London-based author Meg Rosoff is the winner of the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The award was announced in a broadcast from the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm on ...
A good breakfast sticks to your ribs; a good book sticks in your mind, long after the last page. That's the case with Meg Rosoff's brash and brooding debut novel, "How I Live Now." It's not just ...
Rosoff (Just in Case) looks at the world’s natural disasters, injustices, and chaos and presents a perfectly reasonable explanation: God is a horny teenage boy. According to this gleefully heretical ...
Sonja Bolle is a freelance book editor. She also reviews children's books for Newsday. WHEN “How I Live Now,” Meg Rosoff’s first novel for young readers, came out, it stunned, amazed and won all sorts ...
Her first novel, a bestselling dystopian young-adult offering called How I Live Now, has won numerous honours and been made into a film. Penned in the same year, Meet Wild Boars is a picture book ...
Meg Rosoff, a London-based American, writes harrowing, psychologically complex novels for young adults. In “How I Live Now,” 15-year-old Daisy leaves the United States for England to spend the summer ...
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