Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Medal for Writing | 2007 | Winner |
About This Book
After a chance incident makes teenage David convinced that Fate is out to get him, he remakes himself—new name, new clothes, new girlfriend—in a desperate attempt to escape his destiny. Meg Rosoff's darkly comic second novel is a surreal meditation on free will, identity, and mortality.
About the Author
Meg RosoffUS/GB
Meg Rosoff is an American-born British author best known for her Carnegie Medal-winning debut novel Just in Case (2006), a follow-up to the critically acclaimed How I Live Now (2004). Her work spans literary fiction for young adults and adults, often exploring themes of mortality, identity, and fate with darkly comic sensibility. She lives in London.
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