One of the most powerful, inspiring
debut novels you will ever read

Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2008

Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year 2008

Shortlisted for Brandford Boase Award 2009

EXCITING NEWS! Ways to Live Forever the movie is currently being filmed in Newcastle. Starring Emilia Fox, Ben Chaplin and Robbie Kay as Sam, it is set for release in 2010.
See photos of author Sally Nicholls on set with the cast!

Visit the movie's website http://www.waystoliveforever.com/

Every publisher dreams of discovering a first novel that is so outstanding that reading it for the first time is an electrifying experience. WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER by Sally Nicholls is a brilliant debut from a very young writer that has had a profound effect on me and on everyone who has read the manuscript.

It is the story of Sam. He is a boy who likes facts. He's also interested in UFOs and ghosts - and death. He has terminal leukaemia, and is going to die. And dying is a fact of life. The no-nonsense questions that he asks about death demistify the taboos, and make this funny, sad, honest, tender book a life-enhancing experience. It's for readers of all ages, and it will touch hearts and minds around the world.

I hope you will share my conviction that Sally Nicholls is a writer of exceptional talent. I think you will.

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With best wishes,

Publisher, Marion Lloyd Books
Scholastic Children's Books