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Keren David
Growing up in a small town just outside London, Keren David had two ambitions: to write a book and to live in the big city. Several decades on, she has finally achieved both. She was distracted by journalism, starting out at 18 as a messenger girl, then working as a reporter, news editor,... show more

Growing up in a small town just outside London, Keren David had two ambitions: to write a book and to live in the big city. Several decades on, she has finally achieved both. She was distracted by journalism, starting out at 18 as a messenger girl, then working as a reporter, news editor, features editor and feature writer for national newspapers and magazines. Along the way she lived in Glasgow and Amsterdam, where in eight years she learned enough Dutch to order coffee and buy fruit and vegetables. Returning to London in 2007 she signed up for a creative writing course at City University. When I Was Joe, her first novel, started out as a plot-planning exercise. It's about a 14-year-old boy who is given a new identity when he is taken into police protection after witnessing a crime. Keren says: "Unlike the US, witness protection isn't a well-established programme in the UK. I was drawn to the idea of writing about a boy with a false identity because it's such an interesting metaphor for the changes that being a teenager brings."
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Feelingfictional
Feelingfictional rated it 12 years ago
Another Life is the third and final book in Keren David's When I Was Joe series and is the gripping conclusion to Ty's story. Ty has been sentenced to 12 weeks in a Young Offenders Institute for carrying a weapon but the gang he testified against have a long reach and he is worried that he won't be ...
Megan @ The Book Babe's Reads
Megan @ The Book Babe's Reads rated it 13 years ago
please read my review at thebookbabesreads.blogspot.com
Megan @ The Book Babe's Reads
Megan @ The Book Babe's Reads rated it 13 years ago
please read my review at bookstoloveandread.blogspot.com
Feelingfictional
Feelingfictional rated it 15 years ago
Ty and his mother have been in witness protection since Ty saw a murder committed and gave a statement to the police. After their safety was compromised they were moved again and are now living in a small seaside town far away from their home in London. When the killers track them down yet again, ...
The City Of Invention
The City Of Invention rated it 15 years ago
'It's one thing watching someone get killed. It's quite another talking about it.' So begins this gripping and entirely convincing story of a teenage boy who witnesses a stabbing and finds himself placed on a witness protection programme.Two things stand out for me about this remarkably assured debu...
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