A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
Fiction N373m
An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his
seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.
At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a
monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's
been expecting-- he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the
nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her
treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It's ancient. And
wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and
dangerous. It wants the truth.
From the final idea of award-winning
author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her
from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly
funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.
(From publisher.)
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