How I Live Now: Popular Penguins
Author(s): Meg Rosoff
This award winning novel will soon be released as a movie starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy. Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own. Power fails, system fail. As they grow more isolated, the farm becomes a kind of Eden, with no rules. Until the war arrives in their midst.Daisy's is a war story, a survival story, a love story--all told in the voice of a subversive and witty teenager. This book crackles with anxiety and with lust. It's a stunning and unforgettable first novel that captures the essence of the age of terrorism: how we live now.
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While the plot itself is dramatic enough – England circa 2005 is thrown into war and desolation – it is the voice of this novel which is its real strength; it is one of the most captivating narrative voices I’ve read for years. It’s a kind of stream-of-consciousness in which beautiful imagery, teenage snark and raw emotion all reside in a way that feels totally realistic. This mesmerising book would be a great read for fans of John Marsden’s Tomorrow series, and although it is a YA novel I think it is equally fascinating for adult readers too. Greer, The Book Grocer
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin Press
- : 0.1
- : 01 June 2009
- : 18.10 cmmm X 11.40 cmmm
- : books
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- : Paperback
- : Meg Rosoff
