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Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 • Pages: 420
Carton Count: 12 • Ages: 14 Up
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Order Form Category: Young Adult Fiction
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162 • YOUNG ADULT HARDCOVER
An intensely moving and honest story
of a girl dying of leukemia.
Before I Die
JENNY DOWNHAM
TESSA HAS JUST months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits,
endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s
her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the
constraints of ‘normal’ life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel
alive while her failing body struggles to keep up.
Tessa’s feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged
mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallised
in the precious weeks before Tessa’s time finally runs out.
Before I Die is a brilliantly crafted novel, heartbreaking yet astonishingly lifeaffirming.
This is Jenny Downham’s debut novel. She lives in England.