British novelist and an ex-actress
Jenny Downham (born 1964) is a British novelist and an ex-actress who has published four books.
Career
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.[1] The book won the 2008 Branford Boase Award.[2] It was short listed for the 2008 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize[3] and the 2008 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year and nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize.[4] In 2012 it was adapted into a film called Now Is Good and starred Dakota Fanning.[5]
Downham's second novel, You Against Me, was published in December 2010.[6] The book is a novel about family, loyalty, and the choices which we have to make.
Her third novel, Unbecoming, published in 2015, is a story of three generations of women and the uncovering of family secrets.[citation needed]
Her fourth, Furious Thing, published in October 2019, was shortlisted in the children's book category of that year's Costa Book Awards.[7]
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