What I Was

3.5 avg 4705 votes 573 reviews 3826 want to read

About this book

In the 1960s, off the coast of East Anglia, a disgruntled boarding school student develops an obsessive friendship with a boy living by himself at the edge of the sea.

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3.5/5 · 4705 readers · 224 pages · ≈ 4 h 09 m · Easy

How long does it take to read What I Was?

About ≈ 4 h 09 m — 224 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mWhat I Was~4 h 09 m

How many pages is What I Was?

224 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320What I Was224

What genre is What I Was?

It sits on the Young Adult, History, Fiction shelves.

Is What I Was in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote What I Was?

Meg Rosoff.

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