Age recommendation: 13+

How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff’s debut novel, won the Guardian and Branford Boase Awards and was short-listed for the Orange Prize for New Fiction as well as for the Whitbread Children’s Book Award.

Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, hailed it as "That rare, rare thing, a first novel with a sustained, magical and utterly faultless voice."

Born in Boston, USA, Meg has worked in publishing, public relations and most recently advertising. She also had a job writing movie titles and posters for Tristar pictures which she says was her best job ever.

Since How I Live Now, Meg has gone on to write several award-winning books including Just in Case, which won the prestigious children’s book prize, the Carnegie Medal, in 2007, and What I Was, set in Suffolk where Meg has a second home.

She will talk about her much-anticipated fourth novel, The Bride's Farewell, published by Penguin in September and her earlier books.

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  photo: David Levenson

  This is a ticketed event. For free tickets, please contact Rebecca Vickerman on 0116 252 2320 or rv40@le.ac.uk.

• Followed by a book-signing.

Links

• Meg Rosoff website