How I Live Now is an original & poignant book by Meg Rosoff How I Live Now is the powerful & engaging story of Daisy the precocious New Yorker & her English cousin Edmond torn apart as war breaks out in London from the multi award-winning Meg Rosoff How I Live Now has been adapted for the big screen by Kevin Macdonald starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy & releases in 2013 Fifteen-year-old Daisy thinks she knows all about love Her mother died giving birth to her & now her dad has sent her away for the summer to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met There she'll discover what real love is something violent mysterious & wonderful There her world will be turned upside down & a perfect summer will explode into a million bewildering pieces How will Daisy live then?' Fresh honest rude funny I put it down with tears on my face'
- Julie Myerson Guardian ' Assured powerful engaging you will want to read everything that Rosoff is capable of writing'
- Observer ' An unforgettable adventure'
- Sunday Times Bestselling author Meg Rosoff has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her first novel How I Live Now (winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize) Her other novels Just in Case (winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal) The Bride's Farewell & What I Was which was described by The Times as ' Samuel Beckett on ecstasy' are also available from Puffin Follow Meg on Twitter megrosoff Also by Meg Rosoff How I Live Now; Just In Case; What I Was; The Bride's Farewell; There is No Dog