![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her fourth, Furious Thing, published in October 2019, was shortlisted in the children's book category of that year's Costa Book Awards. Her third novel, Unbecoming, published in 2015, is a story of three generations of women and the uncovering of family secrets. The book is a novel about family, loyalty, and the choices which we have to make. /rebates/2fbook2f927718352fBefore-I-Die&. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Äownham's second novel, You Against Me, was published in December 2010. Jenny Downham, Before I Die 226 likes Like Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. In 2012 it was adapted into a film called Now Is Good and starred Dakota Fanning. ![]() It was short listed for the 2008 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the 2008 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year and nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize. The book won the 2008 Branford Boase Award. Her debut novel, Before I Die, is the fictional account of the last few months of a sixteen-year-old girl who has been dying of leukaemia for four years. Jenny Downham (born 1964) is a British novelist and an ex-actress who has published four books. ![]()
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