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Before I Fall

Before I Fall

by Lauren Oliver (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

    $4.17
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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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General
Published: 04 Mar 2010
ISBN 10: 0340980893
ISBN 13: 9780340980897
Children’s book age: 12+ Years

Media Reviews
Hugely moving and gorgeously written . . . an extremely clever and well-written novel that is ultimately uplifting. * Heat *
Heartbreakingly good . . . Up there with Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, it'll make you want to hold close the ones you love and never let them go. Impossible to forget. * News of the World *
A thought-provoking and compelling story that is brave and insightful for a new author * Sun *
This book will take your breath away * She *
Moving and thought-provoking * Woman *
Tender, funny and raw * Marie Claire *
A pitch-perfect Groundhog Day/Lovely Bones hybrid * guardian.co.uk *
Gossip Girl meets Groundhog Day * Grazia *
A beautifully written and outrageously weepy tale. * Daily Mirror *
This is very special . . . It's full of 'what ifs' and raw emotion * Sarah Broadhurst, The Bookseller *
Poignant . . . This tale of second chances will have you clinging on to your Kleenex * Now *
Take the concept of Groundhog Day, add stunning prose and layers of emotional development, and the result is a book to fall in love with over and over again * Daily Record *
Beautifully written * Daily Record *
BEFORE I FALL is amazing, fantastic, a groundbreaking debut. * www.wondrousreads.com *
BEFORE I FALL is beautifully written; brave, sincere and very addictive. It captures the essence of high-school brilliantly, and will have you laughing, crying and philosophising. I wholeheartedly recommend BEFORE I FALL. The best book I've read in the last year. * www.novelicious.com *
A startling piece of writing that is utterly believable and beautifully told... If you only read one book this year, it should be this one. * www.thebookbag.co.uk *
'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 *
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 *
Author Bio

Lauren Oliver is 25 years old, gorgeous and has just graduated from the University of Chicago, where she studied literature and philosophy