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Jenny Downham


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London, The United Kingdom
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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.

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Average rating: 3.78 · 82,555 ratings · 7,074 reviews · 16 distinct worksSimilar authors
Before I Die

3.81 avg rating — 57,854 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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You Against Me

3.69 avg rating — 18,695 ratings — published 2010 — 46 editions
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Unbecoming

3.74 avg rating — 4,083 ratings — published 2015 — 25 editions
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Furious Thing

3.83 avg rating — 1,807 ratings — published 2019 — 20 editions
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Let the Light In

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Ontrafelen

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16歳。死ぬ前にしてみたいこと

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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
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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

“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

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