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Rosoff, Meg - What I Was

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At a bleak boarding school on the eastern coast of England, a remarkable friendship develops between a schoolboy and a mysterious boy who lives by the sea. The unnamed narrator forges a bond with Finn--the first real friendship he has ever experienced in a world where both peers and adults are cruel.

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Grim conditions of a post-WWII boarding school; schoolboy pranks; boys engaging in dangerous activities (mountain climbing, boating in stormy seas); overtones of homosexuality; frank mentions of sex, but none on-stage; cross-dressing; visceral scenes of illness

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