Awards
- Short-listed for Booktrust Teenage Prize 2005
- Short-listed for British Book Awards: Children's Book of the Year 2005
- Shortlisted for Booktrust Teenage Prize 2005.
- Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Children's Book of the Year 2005.
- Shortlisted for Whitbread Book Awards: Children's Book Category 2004.
- Winner of Brandford Boase Award 2005.
- Winner of Branford Boase Award 2005.
- Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2004.
Overview
The most powerful, astonishing debut you will read this year. It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History. But let's face it, that would be crap. Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met. They are Isaac, Edmond, Osbert and Piper. And two dogs and a goat. She's never met anyone quite like them before - and, as a dreamy English summer progresses, Daisy finds herself caught in a timeless bubble. It seems like the perfect summer. But their lives are about to explode. Falling in love is just the start of it. War breaks out - a war none of them understands, or really cares about, until it lands on their doorstep. The family is separated. The perfect summer is blown apart. Daisy's life is changed forever - and the world is too.
Full Product Details
Author: Meg Rosoff
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.80cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 19.70cm
Weight: 0.161kg
ISBN: 9780141318011
ISBN 10: 0141318015
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 June 2005
Recommended Age: From 12 to 16 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Manhattanite Daisy, 15, moves to London to stay with an aunt and cousins she's never met. Without preamble or fanfare, an unidentified enemy attacks and war ensues. Her aunt is abroad on a peace mission, meaning that Daisy and her three cousins, with whom she forges a remarkable relationship, must survive almost entirely on their own. This is a very relatable contemporary story, told in honest, raw first-person and filled with humor, love, pathos, and carnage. War, as it will, changes these young people irrevocably, not necessarily for the worse. They and readers know that no one will ever be the same. The story of Daisy and her three exceptional cousins, one of whom becomes her first lover, offers a keen perspective on human courage and resilience. An epilogue, set six years after the conclusion, while war still lingers, ends Daisy's story on a bittersweet, hopeful note. (Fiction. 12+) (Kirkus Reviews)
Author Information
Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, USA. She has worked in publishing, public relations and most recently advertising but thinks the best job in the world would be head gardener for Regents Park. Meg lives in Highbury, North London.
