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How I Live Now

by Meg Rosoff

A teenager’s survival story in wartime England

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A teenager’s survival story in wartime England

Fifteen-year-old Daisy leaves New York to stay with cousins she has never met in the English countryside. When an unnamed enemy attacks and occupies England, the young people are left to manage as power and systems fail. The farm becomes an isolated refuge, but the war eventually reaches it. The novel brings together survival, family bonds, love, and the experience of conflict through Daisy’s perspective as a teenager. Its setting shifts from an unfamiliar rural home to a community cut off by war, giving the story both a coming-of-age dimension and a wartime frame.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in young adult literary fiction.
  • Readers seeking a story that combines wartime survival with family relationships and romance.
  • Readers interested in a teenage protagonist navigating displacement and conflict.

Themes

War and survivalDisplacement and belongingFamily relationshipsLove and adolescence

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Book overview

This award winning novel will soon be released as a movie starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy.

Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own. Power fails, system fail. As they grow more isolated, the farm becomes a kind of Eden, with no rules. Until the war arrives in their midst.
Daisy's is a war story, a survival story, a love story--all told in the voice of a subversive and witty teenager. This book crackles with anxiety and with lust. It's a stunning and unforgettable first novel that captures the essence of the age of terrorism: how we live now.

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