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How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff How I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy; the precocious New Yorker and 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 and releases in 2013. Fifteen-year-old Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her; and 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 and wonderful. There her world will be turned upside down and 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 and 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