Author Keren David has won the 2011 Angus Book Award for her novel When I Was Joe. 

When I Was Joe is published by Frances Lincoln Children’s Books.    Before launching her career as a writer of teenage novels, Keren David worked as a journalist and editor.  When I Was Joe is her debut teenage novel.

An ice-cold thriller about identity, pain and veracity… David writes in steely, short sentences as Joe grapples with his new school, his mother’s inertia and his own deadly secret…This is a brooding novel that incorporates some shocking ideas and portrays the whole bewildering mess of Tyler’s upturned life (Daily Telegraph)

Keren David has written an action-packed and suspense-filled novel that remains gritty and real. (SoLittleTimeforBooks )