What I Was

From the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller "How I Live Now, "National Book Award""finalist"Picture Me Gone," and most recently"Jonathan Unleashed" Finn was a beautiful orphan. H was a prep school misfit. On a September afternoon many years ago they met on a beach on the coast of England, near the ancient fisherman s hut Finn was squatting in with his woodstove, a case of books, a striped blanket and a cat. H insinuates his way into Finn s life his blazing wood fires and fishing expeditions. Their friendship deepens, offering H the freedom and human connection that has always eluded him. But all too soon the idyll of their relationship is shaken by a heart-wrenching scandal. "What I Was" is the unforgettable story of H at the end of his life looking back on this friendship, which has shaped and obsessed him for nearly a century."