What I Was

'I was at boarding school in East Anglia, my third. I didn’t want to be there. But if there had been no school, there would be no Finn. He lived in a hut on the coast. He was like the hut, in fact – it took a while for both of them to warm up. But that is all I longed for. Finn, warming to me. A nod. Half a smile. Asking me to help on the boat. Not asking me to leave. I didn’t want it to end. Now I am waiting for the end, and looking back to the beginning.'
Haunting, intense and with a surprising twist in the tale – What I Was is unlike anything you will have read before . . .







About the Author


Meg Rosoff had three or four careers in publishing and advertising before writing her highly acclaimed first novel,
How I Live Now. She moved from New York City to London in 1989, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
What I Was is her third novel, after
How I Live Now and
Just in Case.