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Dying to Know You

Aidan Chambers

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Published by Random House Children's Publishers UK

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EAN: 9781448120314
Published: 26 Apr 2012

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Karl, aged seventeen, is hopelessly in love. But the object of his affections, Firella, demands proof, and poses him a series of questions regarding his attitude to the many sides of love. But Karl is dyslexic, and convinced that if Firella finds out, she will think he is stupid, and unworthy of her, and leave him.
So Karl asks a local writer to help him construct his replies - and an unlikely, but extremely touching, friendship develops between the two men. They both come to learn a great deal about about life from a very different perspective, and when an act of violence shatters their calm, they find their respective appraisal of life shifting in profound ways.

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What the critics say

Deliberate in pace and carefully insightful in its investigation of character, Chamber’s latest is a work of art that repays multiple readings
- Booklist

Packed to the brim with challenging ideas, the latest from Chambers is simultaneously an acutely observed and surprising love story. An organic yet intricately crafted story of self-discovery . . . This is a generous gift
- Publishers Weekly

This is a teasingly provocative and touching cross-generational story, written with a rare candour about love, sex, thoughts of suicide and growing old
- Guardian

Chambers is so skilled, so calmly truthful in his writing. What emerges is not just a moving, unexpected story of the complexity of teenagers, but also a story of later life, of ageing and loss, and what experience really means
- Guardian

A heart-warming contemporary love story
- Booked Up!

Dying to Know You is a thoughtful and insightful novel and after turning the last page I was left with the impression that just maybe this writer’s story could be Chambers’ too
- So Many Books, So Little Time

This book is interesting, fun, and very insightful. Chambers takes an inventive approach to his writing
- Examiner.com

Truly brilliant and unforgettable
- Fiction Fascination

This book is like nothing else I have ever read . . . An excellent YA read
- The Overflowing Library

A real page turner
- Bliss

Chambers delivers yet another intellectually satisfying novel with equal parts philosophy and repartee
- The Horn Book

A feelgood and story that quietly challenges a whole range of touchy subjects and social taboo
- Sugarscape

About the Author

Aidan Chambers won the Carngie Medal for Postcards from No Man's Land and the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for the body of his work - the highest international recognition given to creators of children's books. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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