

The second novel to come out from this author is titled You Against Me. At the top of the list is her wish to lose her virginity. The plot focuses around a girl planning out all the various things that she wants to do before she ends up leaving the earth. The film is rated PG-13 and runs for an hour and forty-three minutes. The movie starred Dakota Fanning as Tessa Scott and Jeremy Irvine as Adam. The dramatic story featured plenty of romance, and Downham was an associate producer on the project. It won the Branford Boase Award in 2008.īefore I Die was made into a feature film in 2012 that was based on the novel called Now Is Good. It also was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize. It was nominated for Book of the Year by Lancashire Children in 2008.

The book did well and made the short list for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2007. The story is related to the reader in the first person and focuses on the nature of being alive. She has been suffering with leukemia for the past four years. This is a made up account of a young girl in her teens and the last months of her life as she dies from leukemia. The book also goes by the alternative title, Now Is Good. She has two sons and currently resides in the city of London.ĭownham first made it into print in 2007 with her debut fictional novel, titled Before I Die.

She is not only a novelist but a former actor as well.ĭownham was born in 1964. Jenny Downham is a published British author.
