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Fresh Fiction for August Is Here

Cowboys, castles, and shiftersβ€”this month has it all.

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Hotter than a Tuscan summer.


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Some promises cost you the one you love.


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Only she can pull him back from the darkness.


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One golden retriever knows this is love.


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Trust is the fiercest transformation of all.


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From Himalayan stargazing to the London Blitzβ€”one love endures.

What I Was: A Novel by Meg Rosoff

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Also by Meg Rosoff:

Jonathan Unleashed, June 2017
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Jonathan Unleashed, July 2016
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There Is No Dog, February 2012
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What I Was: A Novel, January 2009
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Just in Case, February 2008
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How I Live Now, August 2004
Hardcover

WHAT I WAS: A NOVEL
By: Meg Rosoff

Plume
January 2009
On Sale: December 30, 2008
224 pages
ISBN: 0452290236
EAN: 9780452290235
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Finn was a beautiful orphan. H was a prep school misfit. On a September afternoon many years ago they met on a beach on the coast of England, near the ancient fisherman’s hut Finn was squatting in with his woodstove, a case of books, a striped blanket and a cat. H insinuates his way into Finn’s lifeβ€”his blazing wood fires and fishing expeditions. Their friendship deepens, offering H the freedom and human connection that has always eluded him. But all too soon the idyll of their relationship is shaken by a heart-wrenching scandal.

What I Was is the unforgettable story of H at the end of his life looking back on this friendship, which has shaped and obsessed him for nearly a century.

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