Picture of author.

Meg Rosoff

Author of How I Live Now

22+ Works 7,580 Members 528 Reviews 8 Favorited

About the Author

Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 16, 1956. She studied at Harvard University, but left for England in 1977 to take classes at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design. She returned to finish her degree in English and fine arts at Harvard University. She worked in New show more York City for 10 years in publishing and advertising, before moving to England. Her first novel, How I Live Now, was published in 2004 and won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Her other novels include What I Was, The Bride's Farewell, There Is No Dog, Moose Baby, and Picture Me Gone. Just in Case won the 2007 Carnegie Medal. She won the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She is also the author of a picture book entitled Meet Wild Boars and co-author of a non-fiction book entitled London Guide: Your Passport to Great Travel. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Series

Works by Meg Rosoff

How I Live Now (2004) 3,975 copies
What I Was (2007) 780 copies
Just in Case (2006) 712 copies
Picture Me Gone (2013) 401 copies
The Bride's Farewell (2009) 397 copies
There Is No Dog (2011) 381 copies
Jonathan Unleashed (2016) 200 copies
Meet Wild Boars (2005) 154 copies
The Great Godden (2020) 100 copies
Jumpy Jack & Googily (2008) 98 copies
Wild Boars Cook (2008) 84 copies
Beck (2016) 72 copies
Good Dog, McTavish (2017) 65 copies
Friends Like These (2022) 46 copies
McTavish Takes the Biscuit (2019) 27 copies
McTavish Goes Wild (2018) 25 copies
Moose Baby (2013) 20 copies
It's a Moose! (2020) 11 copies
Vamoose! (2010) 10 copies
London Guide, 3E (1995) 10 copies
McTavish on the Move (2019) 10 copies

Associated Works

A Wrinkle in Time (1962) — Introduction, some editions — 39,132 copies
The Double Tongue (1995) — Introduction, some editions — 252 copies
Shining On: 11 Star Authors' Illuminating Stories (2006) — Contributor — 50 copies
Thanks for the Mammaries (2009) — Contributor — 24 copies
The Brighton Book (2005) — Contributor — 11 copies

Tagged

anorexia (63) boarding school (36) children's (39) coming of age (117) cousins (66) death (39) dogs (35) dystopia (123) dystopian (43) eating disorders (59) England (232) family (134) fantasy (54) fate (36) fiction (642) friendship (72) historical fiction (56) humor (45) incest (49) love (108) mystery (35) novel (56) picture book (47) post-apocalyptic (39) Printz (42) Printz Award (67) read (100) realistic fiction (39) relationships (62) romance (89) science fiction (59) survival (126) teen (93) teen fiction (36) to-read (385) war (311) YA (391) young adult (429) young adult fiction (107) young adult literature (39)

Common Knowledge

Members

Reviews

Boars behaving badly.
 
Flagged
LibrarianDest | 10 other reviews | Jan 3, 2024 |
Having just finished [book: Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You] I don't know why I picked up another story about a depressed young man. Too much depressed young man stuff for one week! Anyway, I think this book will strike your average reader as kind of weird because the titular Justin Case (get it?) has an imaginary dog and Fate talks to him and it's neither fun nor whimsical. It's actually mostly philosophical and troubling.

Maybe Rosoff wrote this book as a kind of meditation on the meaning of life for people who question if it even exists (meaning, that is). Maybe the point of this book is that you must learn to deal with uncertainty to be happy. It's deep stuff with minimal action.

I think I would've loved this book at 16 or 17, during my own philosophically dark days. It's definitely better with the greyhound cover.
… (more)
 
Flagged
LibrarianDest | 32 other reviews | Jan 3, 2024 |
So while I was reading this book a couple people asked me what it was about and having not prepared a booktalk for it (or even finished it), I usually started by saying, "Well there's this teenage girl who goes to live in England and she falls in love with her cousin and a war breaks out and she's anorexic." That makes the book sound terrible.

Really any list of things that happen in this book (incest, eating disorders, terrorism, an evil stepmother, magical psychic children) can make it sound terrible. What makes it not terrible is the voice of the narrator, the quality of the writing, and this overall unapologetic attitude the book gives off. It doesn't apologize for the incest, the anorexia, the terrorism, or the magical psychic stuff. And because the book is strongly written I didn't find myself questioning the author's choices or being grossed out or offended.

I really really liked this book.
… (more)
 
Flagged
LibrarianDest | 246 other reviews | Jan 3, 2024 |
Dramatic irony for the little ones.
 
Flagged
LibrarianDest | 9 other reviews | Jan 3, 2024 |

Lists

Awards

You May Also Like

Associated Authors

Statistics

Works
22
Also by
5
Members
7,580
Popularity
#3,219
Rating
4.0
Reviews
528
ISBNs
336
Languages
14
Favorited
8

Charts & Graphs