Get the Audible audiobook for the reduced price of 3.49. Patrick Ness has crafted a masterful story about grief and loss, love and hope that lingers in the heart like a ghost. Switch between reading the Kindle book & listening to the Audible narration with Whispersync for Voice. “Brilliant and elegant, with all the thrills and ambition you would expect from the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy.” -Frank Cottrell Boyce, award-winning author of Millions and Cosmic “Exceptional.this is storytelling as it should be-harrowing, lyrical, and transcendent.” -Meg Rosoff, author of the Printz Award–winning novel How I Live Now “Compelling.powerful and impressive.” -Philip Pullman, author of the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mothers terminal illness. This moving, heart-breaking and incredibly brave book left me in a. It bends down to the window, saying in a low, rumbling voice that it. I dont believe that I have the words to do justice to A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.

This is the monster: the branches of the tree twisting into a great and terrible face, with a powerful spine and torso. When the moon shines again, the yew tree is standing in the middle of Conor ’s backyard. 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. A cloud passes over the moon, covering the view in darkness. The monster in his backyard is different. 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.

NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.Īt seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window.

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