Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now

Novelist Meg Rosoff joins Harriett Gilbert to answer listeners' questions about one of her best-loved novels, How I Live Now. It is the story of Daisy, an American teenager shipped off to live with her aunt and cousins in England. What is at first an idyllic escape into English countryside life is shattered at the onset of War, when England is suddenly occupied by an unknown enemy. Daisy finds herself struggling to survive and keep her new family safe as they face violence, fear and starvation, while at the same time experiencing her first love, with her own cousin - Edmond. Beautiful, brutal, and laced with Daisy’s razor-sharp, jaded teenage humour, this is a book that brings readers into a world that feels incredibly, terrifyingly real, and will likely stay in your memory for years to come. (Photo: Meg Rosoff. Credit: Glora Hamlyn/Penguin Books)

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Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now is an episode from World Book Club by BBC.

This episode is 49:29 long.

This episode was published on Feb 1, 2025.

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