Before I Fall

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Hodder & Stoughton, 2010 - Fiction - 344 pages
'They say that when you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me'

Sam Kingston is dead.
Except she isn't.
On a rainy February night, eighteen-year-old Sam is killed in ahorrific car crash.But then the impossible happens: she wakes up in her own bed, on the morning of the day that she died.
Forced to liveover and over the last day of her life - the drive to school, skipping class, the fateful party - shedesperately struggles to alter the outcome, but every morning shewakes up on the day of the crash.This is a story of a girl who dies young, but in the process learns how to live. And who falls in love . . . a little too late.
BEFORE I FALL is a brave and complex novel about the territory between life and death. As astonishing as The Lovely Bones and asluminous as Jenny Downham's Before I Die, itwill make you want to live every day as if it were your last.

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About the author (2010)

Lauren Oliver (born Laura Schechter) was born in New York City in 1982. She received degrees in philosophy and literature from the University of Chicago in 2004. She graduated the MFA program at NYU in 2008. She worked briefly as an editorial assistant and an assistant editor at Razorbill, a division of Penguin Books. She left to become a full-time writer in 2009. Her first novel, Before I Fall, was published in 2010. Her other works include Delirium, Liesl and Po, and Pandemonium. Her title's Panic, Vanishing Girls and The Shrunken Head made The New York Times Best Seller List. She made the Hollywood Reporter's '25 Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list, entering at number 23.