- Literature, Juvenile Literature, Fiction, Coming of age
In the 1960s, off the coast of East Anglia, a disgruntled boarding school student develops an obsessive friendship with a boy living by himself at the edge of the sea.
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Classical in form, intimate, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Meg Rosoff
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Viking, Penguin Group UK, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780141383439
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“BY THE TIME WE REACHED ST. OSWALD'S, fog had completely smothered the coast.”
American children's author based in London. Winner of the Astrid Lindgren Prize.
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