What I Was
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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.
Reader Profile
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.
How many pages is What I Was?
224 pages in its most-read edition.
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.