Before I Fall - Softcover

Lauren Oliver

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340980893 ISBN 13: 9780340980897

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General, 2010

Synopsis

They say that when you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me

Sam Kingston is dead. Except she isn't.

On a rainy February night, eighteen-year-old Sam is killed in a horrific car crash. But then the impossible happens: she wakes up in her own bed, on the morning of the day that she died.

Forced to live over and over the last day of her life the drive to school, skipping class, the fateful party she desperately struggles to alter the outcome, but every morning she wakes up on the day of the crash.

This is a story of a girl who dies young, but in the process learns how to live. And who falls in love... a little too late.

BEFORE I FALL is a brave and complex novel about the territory between life and death. As astonishing as The Lovely Bones and as luminous as Jenny Downham s Before I Die, it will make you want to live every day as if it were your last.

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Review:

'Poignant...This tale of second chances will have you clinging on to your Kleenex' --Now magazine
'Before I Fall is smart, complex, and heartbreakingly beautiful. Lauren Oliver has written an extraordinary debut novel about what it means to live - and die.' --Carolyn Mackler, author of Tangled

From the Publisher:

'Although I'm not the target reader I found myself engrossed and moved by this marvellous book' --Jamie Hodder-Williams

'This beautiful story had me gripped right from the first page – full of both tragic and touching 'what-if's', it takes you right back to the intense and often cruel teen-age experiences at high school. Heartbreaking in its honesty, it's a novel that really makes you think and it stayed with me long after I finished reading it' --Rebecca Cooney, International Sales & Marketing Manager

'I could feel the shivers down my spine from the first chapter, and I couldn’t put it down. A really powerful read' --Auriol Bishop, Creative Director

'A truly absorbing read. The writing is alive and powerful, and carried me along non-stop.' --Swati Gamble, Hodder Editorial

'I loved this engaging, compelling, heartbreaking novel, and can't see how any reader could fail to be won over by Sam as she relives her last day again and again and again.   I didn't want Before I Fall to end.' --Carolyn Mays, Director of Fiction

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0340980893
• ISBN 13: 9780340980897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352