More than this I hated her dumb friend who reminded her every 5 minutes that she’s gonna die and who was NEVER there for her (and when she tried to help Tessa with her stupid wishes I just wanted to punch her for being such an idiot and not being a good friend at all), I hated her little brother telling her that he can’t wait for her to be gone (sometimes he seemed to be 5 years old even if we’ve been told he was older), I hated her mother who seemed not to care about her at all. I just expected something else from her and I was disappointed by all this. I understand the desire to have a boyfriend, to be kissed and have sex, probably at her age this would be an important part of her life, but the other ‘wishes’ were kind of stupid and not the ones that someone would like to think about before dying. I didn’t like it that much, but I didn’t hate it either.įor the most part of the story I didn’t really care about Tessa, about her illness and her strange wishes (as I never got attached to her).
I don’t really know what to say about this book. It’s my illness, my death, my choice.This is what saying yes means.”
The book was acclaimed and was short-listed for the 2007 Guardian Award and the 2008 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year, nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize, and won the 2008 Branford Boase Award.“I want to die in my own way. In her first book, Before I Die, the fictional account of the last few months of a sixteen-year-old girl who has been dying of leukemia for 4 years. Jenny Downham (born 1964) is a British novelist and an ex-actor. The book was acclaimed and was short-listed for the 2007 Guardian Award and the 2008 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year, nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize, and won the 2008 Branford Boase Award.
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