{"product_id":"what-i-was","title":"Meg Rosoff: What I Was [2008] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeg Rosoff, multi award winning author of \u003ci\u003eHow I Live Now\u003c\/i\u003e, explores the pain of first love and coming-of-age in her compelling novel \u003ci\u003eWhat I Was\u003c\/i\u003e, which was once described by \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e as 'Samuel Beckett on ecstasy.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShall I tell you about the year I discovered love?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI'd been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut without St Oswald's, I would not have discovered the fisherman's hut with its roaring fire, its striped blankets, its sea monster stew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithout St Oswald's, I would not have met the boy with the beautiful eyes, the flickering half-smile, and no past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithout St Oswald's I would not have met Finn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd without Finn, there would be no story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShall we begin?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e' . . . thrilling and sensitively told' - \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e' . . . mordantly funny and searingly well written' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBestselling author Meg Rosoff has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her first novel \u003ci\u003eHow I Live Now\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Children's Fiction Prize). Her other novels, \u003ci\u003eJust in Case\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal) and \u003ci\u003eThe Bride's Farewell\u003c\/i\u003e, are also available from Puffin. Follow Meg on Twitter @megrosoff.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rosoff, Meg","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47785367568723,"sku":"XG80141322469","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/rosoff-meg-what-i-was-xg80141322469-54837715960147.jpg?v=1727988073","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/what-i-was","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}