The Great Godden

SHORTLISTED for the Costa Children's Book Award 2020.
This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer - the summer when everything changes. In a holiday house by the sea, in a big, messy family, one teenager watches as brothers and sisters, parents and older cousins fill hot days with wine and games and planning a wedding.
Enter the Goddens - irresistible, charming, languidly sexy Kit and surly, silent Hugo. Suddenly there's a serpent in this paradise - and the consequences will be devastating.
From bestselling, award-winning author Meg Rosoff comes a lyrical and quintessential coming-of-age tale - a summer book that's as heady, timeless and irresistible as Bonjour Tristesse and I Capture the Castle but as sharp and fresh as Normal People.

Meg Rosoff is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and winner of the Carnegie Medal, the Printz Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and the coveted Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She grew up in a suburb of Boston and moved to London, where she worked in advertising for fifteen years before writing her first novel, How I Live Now, which has sold more than one million copies in thirty-six territories.
She has written critically acclaimed and award-bedecked books for adults, teenagers and younger readers. Almost Nothing Happened follows The Great Godden and Friends Like These, three coming-of-age novels which share a summer theme.
Meg lives in London and spends her summers on the Suffolk coast.
megrosoff.co.uk / @megrosoff