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What I Was

Hardback (30 Aug 2007)

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Publisher's Synopsis

'I was at boarding school in East Anglia, my third. I didn't want to be there. But if there had been no school, there would be no Finn. He lived in a hut on the coast. He was like the hut, in fact - it took a while for both of them to warm up. But that is all I longed for. Finn, warming to me. A nod. Half a smile. Asking me to help on the boat. Not asking me to leave. I didn't want it to end. Now I am waiting for the end, and looking back to the beginning.'

Haunting, intense and with a surprising twist in the tale - What I Was is unlike anything you will have read before . . .

About the Publisher

Puffin

The first ten paperback Penguin books appeared in 1935 costing 6d each (the price of a packet of cigarettes). Since then the Penguin list has developed enormously, but still aims to bring the best writing to the widest possible audience. Penguin Paperbacks now range from Booker Prize-winning contemporary authors, to mass market bestsellers, with successful history, biography and general non-fiction as well.

Book information

ISBN: 9780141383439
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Puffin
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 198
Weight: 336g
Height: 222mm
Width: 143mm
Spine width: 21mm