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What I Was

What I Was

Author(s): Meg Rosoff

Location(s): Suffolk

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1960s

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I’d been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third.

But without St Oswald’s, I would not have discovered the fisherman’s hut with its roaring fire, its striped blankets, its sea monster stew.

Without St Oswald’s, I would not have met the boy with the beautiful eyes, the flickering half-smile, and no past.

Without St Oswald’s I would not have met Finn.

And without Finn, there would be no story.

Shall we begin?

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A rather bleak depiction of life in a boarding school, Suffolk – Deidre Doors –

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