What I Was

<p>Meg Rosoff, multi award winning author of <i>How I Live Now</i>, explores the pain of first love and coming-of-age in her compelling novel <i>What I Was</i>, which was once described by <i>The Times</i> as ''Samuel Beckett on ecstasy.''<br><br><b>Shall I tell you about the year I discovered love?</b><br><br>I''d been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third.<br><br>But without St Oswald''s, I would not have discovered the fisherman''s hut with its roaring fire, its striped blankets, its sea monster stew.<br><br>Without St Oswald''s, I would not have met the boy with the beautiful eyes, the flickering half-smile, and no past.<br><br>Without St Oswald''s I would not have met Finn.<br><br>And without Finn, there would be no story.<br><br>Shall we begin?<br><br>'' . . . thrilling and sensitively told'' - <i>Observer</i><br><br>'' . . . mordantly funny and searingly well written'' - <i>The Times</i><br><br>Bestse