Jenny Downham



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Jenny Downham

Author profile


born
The United Kingdom
gender
female

genre
Young Adult, Literature & Fiction

influences
Raymond Carver


About this author

Jenny Downham (born 1964) is a British novelist and an ex-actor. In her first book, Before I Die, the fictional account of the last few months of a sixteen-year-old girl who has been dying of leukemia for 4 years. The book is told in the first person. The book was acclaimed and was short-listed for the 2007 Guardian Award and the 2008 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year, nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize, and won the 2008 Branford Boase Award.


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Jenny Downham's Books

Average rating: 3.83 · 26,008 ratings · 3,230 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
Before I Die
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 18,547 ratings — published 2007 — 68 editions
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You Against Me
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 7,465 ratings — published 2010 — 27 editions
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Quotes by Jenny Downham

“I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die
tags: love
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“I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die
tags: adam, love
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“I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die
tags: leaving, love, sorrow, tessa
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