Jenny Downham





Jenny Downham

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The United Kingdom

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Raymond Carver


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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.



Average rating: 3.84 · 13,421 ratings · 2,239 reviews · 2 distinct works
Before I Die
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 9,752 ratings — published 2007 — 55 editions
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You Against Me
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 3,652 ratings — published 2010 — 20 editions
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“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

“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

“Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears.

We are blessed.


Let them all go.


The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me.

Moments.

All gathering towards this one.”
Jenny Downham, Before I Die

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