Forman has gone on to write several more YA books that deal with complex and mature themes, such as sex, suicide, and death of a family member. If I Stay went on to be made into a movie in 2014, starring Chloë Grace Moretz.

The book catapulted her into the spotlight, earning a spot on the top of the New York Times Bestsellers List, and winning the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) award in 2009 and the Indies Choice Book Award in 2010. She began writing novels when she was 34, and published the award winning If I Stay in 2009. Though she says she’s been a writer since she could form her letters, she began her formal writing career as a journalist for Seventeen magazine, then moved on to freelancing for several other major magazine titles. Moore CC BY-SA 4.0 )įorman was born on Jin Los Angeles, California. Gayle Forman at the 2016 Texas Book Festival ( Larry D. She is best known for her award winning book, If I Stay. All the characters are incredibly written and the story line is gripping and emotion-inducing – both good and bad.Today is Gayle Forman’s 52nd birthday! Forman is the bestselling young adult author of 11 novels and several anthology contributions. The ending was the biggest cliffhanger I think I have ever read and I immediately went and bought the sequel (Where She Went by Gayle Forman) to know what happens next.

There are parts where I was practically bawling my eyes out, and then others where it made me laugh out loud. This book is gut-wrenchingly sad yet heart-warmingly happy at the same time. She spends the time locked between life and death, unsure what she should do: stay and live without her family, or go and leave everyone who she loves the most… Trapped in a coma, Mia watches everyone come and visit her, including her boyfriend, Adam. Except it's on this drive that The Accident happens… Its a snow day so the family decide to take a drive, call in on some friends, perhaps get some lunch, maybe even stop off at Mia's favourite second-hand book store. It starts off with 17 year old, cellist-virtuoso Mia coming down to breakfast with her family – her rocker dad, her punk mum and her utterly loveable younger brother, Teddy.

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