Pieces of me: Meg Rosoff, Author

In pictures: Meg Rosoff's pieces of me 1 My sisters and me when we were little - about four, five, seven and eight. My grandfather had bought us matching parasols. 2 My first passport from 1973. I never felt at home in America, weirdly. I had my first trip to England on an amazing choir tour of Europe. But I got thrown out of the choir for general bad behaviour - a lot of things in my life ended that way. 3 This is my great beloved childhood friend. I've had it since we were the same size - three feet. 4 Pride and Prejudice is the perfect coming-of-age novel. 5 My breast cancer pills. The week my first novel came out was the week I found out that I had cancer. My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. I was bald, sweating from the drugs but... [read full story]