An extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. Product
Description.
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the
monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare,
the one he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments,
the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming… The monster in his
back garden, though, this monster is something different.
Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of
all from Conor. It wants the truth. Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a
tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd,
whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself.
Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, A Monster Calls is an extraordinarily
moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for
young adults.
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