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What I Was

What I Was

by Meg Rosoff

LiteratureJuvenile LiteratureFictionComing of ageBoarding schools
4.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

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.

Themes & subjects

LiteratureJuvenile LiteratureFictionComing of ageBoarding schoolsSchools

Setting

East Anglia (England)EnglandGreat BritainEast Anglia20th centuryElizabeth II, 1952-

About the author

Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff

16 Oct 1956

American children's author based in London. Winner of the Astrid Lindgren Prize.

Author

Meg Rosoff

Pages

224

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

16

Languages

English, Dutch

Publisher

Blackstone Audio Inc.

ISBN

9789048800230

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