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