How I Live Now: Meg Rosoff Story aired: Monday, November 15, 2004
Writer Meg Rosoff's first novel "How I Live Now" focuses on the lives of children and adolescents in an age of terrorism. The main character, Daisy, goes to visit her aunt on a farm in rural England. While she's there, London comes under terrorist attack, leaving her stranded with her four cousins, and all the adults away, the four children are left to take care of themselves and to deal with a war that creeps closer and closer to their rustic refuge. The book has won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and has been short listed for Britain's Whitbread Award for children's literature. Meg Rosoff reads a passage and explains why she chose adolescence as the subject of her first novel.
