Meg Rosoff was born in Boston and now lives in London with her husband and daughter. Her debut novel "How I Live Now" was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, winner of the Micheal L. Printz Award, and nominated for the Orange Award for New Writers. Her second novel, "Just in Case", won the 2007 CILIP Carnegie Medal and was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

In 1962, 16-year-old H is dropped off at St. Oswald's, a dismal boarding school on the coast of England. It is a model of its kind--the rooms are freezing, the food is disgusting, and the older boys are sadistic. But H is used to the drill and well-practiced at imagining himself somewhere--anywhere--else, until the day he comes face-to-face with Finn, an almost unbearably beautiful boy living by himself at the edge of the sea. As their unlikely friendship deepens, it offers H a haven away from the petty rules and bullies. But H and Finn can't hide forever.