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by Meg Rosoff (Author) "My name is Elizabeth but no one's ever called me that ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Puffin (30 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141318015
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141318011
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 22,644 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Possibly one of the most talked about books of the year, Meg Rosoff’s novel for young adults is the winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2004. Heralded by some as the next best adult crossover novel since Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, who himself has given the book a thunderously good quote, this author’s debut is undoubtedly stylish, readable and fascinating.

Rosoff’s story begins in modern day London, slightly in the future, and as its heroine has a 15-year-old Manhattanite called Daisy. She’s picked up at the airport by Edmond, her English cousin, a boy in whose life she is destined to become intricately entwined. Daisy is staying for the summer in her Aunt Penn’s country farmhouse with Edmond and her other cousins. They spend some idyllic weeks together--often alone with Aunt Penn away travelling in Norway. Daisy’s cousins seem to have an almost telepathic bond, and Daisy is mesmerised by Edmond and soon falls in love with him.

But their world changes forever when an unnamed aggressor invades England and begins a years-long occupation. Daisy is parted from Edmond when soldiers take over their home, and Daisy and Piper, her younger cousin, must travel to another place to work. Their experiences of occupation are never kind and always hard. Daisy’s pain, living without Edmond, is tangible.

Rosoff’s writing style is both brilliant and frustrating. Her descriptions and ability to portray the emotions of her characters are wonderful. Her long sentences and total lack of speech marks for dialogue is, however, exhausting. Her narrative is deeply engaging and yet a bit unbelievable. The end of the book is dramatic, but too sudden. The book has a raw, unfinished feel about it, yet that somehow adds to the experience of reading it. It’s flawed but unmissable. (Age 14 and over) --John McLay --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
a magical and utterly faultless voice --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a children's book that made me cry, 23 Aug 2007
By Linda Oskam "dutch-traveller" (Amsterdam Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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Motherless Daisy is 15 years old when she is sent by her re-married father from New York to rural England to live with her 4 cousins, whose mother is mainly working or absent, so the children have to fend for themselves. Even though it takes the girl from the Big Apple some time to get used to live in the countryside of another country, she soon discovers that she has not only found new friends, but also a soulmate and lover in her cousin Edmond. But then disaster strikes: war breaks out and slowly but surely the children get dragged into the conflict and the family falls apart. All through the ordeal Daisy is accompanied by her younger cousin Piper and she definitely feels the presence of Edmond, who they are trying to find during a long, harrowing hike through the countryside in which they try to stay away from the enemy. When Daisy finally finds Edmond back it is too little, too late...

A beautiful book, very much written from the perspective of Daisy. The book starts out light and funny iwith the observations of an American town girl on English life and customs, but it gets more and more grim when the war with the (unidentified) enemy breaks out and things go from bad to worse. A book for adolescents with a light and a dark side.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely amazing, 20 Dec 2006
This book made me cry several times. And i laughed many times. I picked it up in Waterstones becuase the book cover caught my eye (i know they say never judge a book by its cover, but i was right this time!!) and i bought it. when i tried to read it the first time, i has just finished reading Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging, and anyone who has read that will know it is written in a completely different way to How I Live Now. so i put How I Live Now away because i didn't like the first page. But then, at my grandma's i had nothing else to read so i started reading it again. and got completely sucked into it! I completely thought that i was Daisy! And Edmond sounded gorgy! Then i kept ready. And i was in tears about the whole massacre thing!
if you want to read a classic, then you have to read this. utterly fabuloso. you will adore it.
it is now on the top shelf of my bookcase because that is where all my fave books are (like Avalon High by Meg Cabot, Let's Get Lost by Sarra Manning etc) because i'm tall and it's more convenient having my faves up the top.
Read it or you're just weird.
Also, if you don't cry or laugh or smile, then you need to buy another heart!!!
READ IT!
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!! Brilliant!!! Brilliant!!!!!!!!, 18 Oct 2004
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This review is from: How I Live Now (Hardcover)
This is just so phenomenally well written. I defy anyone to read it unmoved. I finished it this morning and it has been right at the front of my mind all day. It has joy, it has humour, it has fear and sheer horror and each is absolutely real.

The "heroine" of the book is self absorbed so that events which do not immediately concern her - like a World War - are hardly noticed as she is completely wrapped up in abandoning herself body and soul to her cousin. Eventually she faces the real world and the reader is spared nothing in her descriptions of what horrors are around her. The words are simply written, with not a wasted syllable, and very powerful. I was grabbed by the throat and found it unputtdownable.

This adds to my tally of great books on the futility and sheer waste which is war. Unlike other reviewers I didn't rate Birdsong as highly as some Pat Barker novels, All Quiet on the Western Front, An Ice Cream War, or (my favourite) A Very Long Engagement by Sebastian Japrisot.

Read this book. Read it now. I am prepared to put good money on its being "discovered" over the course of the coming year - so get ahead of theh crowd and be ready to be utterly dazzled and have your breath taken from you. In the words of another writer, this is a breathtaking work of staggering genius.

Brilliant!!! Brilliant!!!!! Brilliant!!!!!!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unbeatable
How I live now is just.... I can't explain it. Its completely strange put completely perfect! I haven't really read any books from Meg Rosoff's collection, and reading this book... Read more
Published 26 days ago by Mrs. Susan Beckwith

3.0 out of 5 stars short but sweet
I enjoyed this sweet little story and I emphasise the 'little' here. I read this book in a day and it left me feeling half full! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jala sufian

5.0 out of 5 stars Take my hand and run with me...
I am 17 but i was 15 when i read this and it still firmly remains one of my all time favourite books. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Kelly

2.0 out of 5 stars A triumph of hype over style
Forty thousand words. There's a plot in there somewhere - maybe even a half decent one - but it's so smothered by clumsy, self-consciously 'yoof' vernacular that it's just lost... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Jim Ashton

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, if you can ignore the lack of grammar.
This, I've got to confess, is one of my favourite books: I enjoyed it so much I've read it several times. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Alice Overton-Lamb

4.0 out of 5 stars A fish out of water tale with a twist
This superb novel starts off fairly conventionally as 15 yr old New Yorker and anorexic Daisy is sent off to stay with her English cousins while her hated step-mom has a baby... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Annabel Gaskell

3.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating, Unsatifying and yet Brilliant
It was a shame about the lack of punctuation and speechmarks because it was a fantastic story and an incredible idea. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Caroley

3.0 out of 5 stars Ambitious novel. Winner of 3 Awards, and yet lacks some finishing touches.
Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2004, the Michael L. Printz Award 2005, and the Brandford Boase Award 2005. Read more
Published 15 months ago by SB

5.0 out of 5 stars A great read - by Poppy Richards
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff is probably the most moving and well-written novel you will ever read. It demonstrates that there are still some novels out there that will literally... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. D. Richards

4.0 out of 5 stars How I Live Now
It was not until I finished reading the book that I realsed it was for 'Young Adults' Well I'm an OAP and I enjoyed the book very much. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr. Alec M. Wylie

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