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 )
