Before I Die

Jenny Downham

About the book

Tessa has just a few months to live.


Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is sex.


Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up.


Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out.


BEFORE I DIE is a brilliantly-crafted novel, heartbreaking yet astonishingly life-affirming. It will take you to the very edge.


Publication Date
29 April 2010

Publisher
David Fickling Books (PB)

Book Type
Paperback / softback

ISBN
9781849920452

Before I Die - Jacket

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