The Bride's Farewell

by Meg Rosoff

Living in rural England during the 1850s, Pell sees a future ahead like her mother’s, of marital unhappiness, grinding domestic drudgery and relentless childbearing.

Her flight, with her mute youngest sibling, from this fate, takes her to Salisbury Horse Fair, where she is tricked out of her beloved horse and her brother vanishes. Searching for them she encounters a mysterious gypsy woman whose life is inextricably linked with hers
and discovers her own future.

A gripping, poetic coming-of-age tale, which considers issues as relevant to 21st century teenage experience as they were in Pell’s time; relationships, duty, love and abuse. Those who know Tess of the D’Urbervilles will recognise similarities, while those who haven’t
yet encountered it would certainly also enjoy Hardy’s novel.

Publisher: Penguin

Meg Rosoff

Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, USA in 1956, the second of four sisters. She attended Harvard University in 1974. After three years at Harvard she moved to England and studied sculpture at Central St. Martins in London, England. She returned to the United States to finish her degree in 1980, and later moved to New York City for nine years, where she worked in publishing and advertising.

Aged 32, Meg returned to London and has lived there ever since. Between 1989 and 2003, she worked for a variety of advertising agencies as a copywriter. She began to write novels after her youngest sister died of breast cancer. Her young adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004, in the same week she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It won The Guardian Children's Fiction prize, the Michael L. Printz Award in the United States, and was shortlisted for a Whitbread Award in 2004. In 2005 she published a children's book, Meet Wild Boars, which was illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Her second novel, Just in Case, was published in 2006 and won the 2007 CILIP Carnegie Medal and Germany's Jugendliteraturpreis. What I Was was published on August 30, 2007, followed by two additional collaborations with Sophie Blackall: Wild Boars Cook and Jumpy Jack and Googily. She has also published The Bride's Farewell. There is no Dog is her latest novel.

http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/

Meg Rosoff