Meg Rosoff is the author of seven young-adult novels including the bestselling How I Live Now. She is the winner of the Carnegie Medal, the Printz Award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, an Alex Award and the coveted Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She lived in New York for nine years, where she worked in publishing and advertising.
A wonderful, captivating writer * Daily Telegraph * A magical and utterly faultless voice * Mark Haddon * This smart and humorous novel is, from the first sentence, rapture to read * Sunday Times on THE GREAT GODDEN` * Brilliant and impactful * Pandora Sykes on THE GREAT GODDEN * A powerful and painful evocation of first love * Daily Mail on THE GREAT GODDEN * This dreamy novel ... charms and seduces effortlessly. Just like those long, hot, lazy summers of your childhood, by the end of it, you'll want to start all over again ***** * Heat Magazine on THE GREAT GODDEN * An irresistible account of female friendship set on the cusp between of adulthood in 1980s New York. Nobody describes the strength, pain and comedy of being young as elegantly and eloquently as Meg Rosoff -- Amanda Craig This summer's must-read YA novel * The Times * Highly filmic ... gorgeously evoked * Spectator * Beautifully written and evocative ... An intoxicating mix of love, friendship and learning over one unforgettable summer * Reading Zone * Rosoff conjures up dazzlingly that stage of life when the possibilities can be endless, but the probability is that you'll just annoy your boss, snog someone inappropriate and lose a friend after a bad call. This summer's must-read. * The Times *