Jenny Downham

Her debut novel, Before I Die, is the fictional account of the last few months of a sixteen-year-old girl who has been dying of leukaemia for four years.^[1] The book won the 2008 Branford Boase Award.^[2] It was short listed for the 2008 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize^[3] and the 2008 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year and nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize.^[4] In 2012 it was adapted into a film called Now Is Good and starred Dakota Fanning.^[5]

Downham's second novel, You Against Me, was published in December 2010.^[6] The book is a novel about family, loyalty, and the choices which we have to make.

Her third novel, Unbecoming, published in 2015, is a story of three generations of women and the uncovering of family secrets.^{[citation needed]}

Her fourth, Furious Thing, published in October 2019, was shortlisted in the children's book category of that year's Costa Book Awards.^[7]

• Official Website
• [1] Works by or about Jenny Downham in libraries (Worldcat catalogue)
• Guardian Review
• New York Times Review
• The Times Feature
• Meet the Author Video
• Jenny Downham at Library of Congress, with 2 library catalogue records

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