Monster Calls

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This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isnt the monster Conors been expecting. Hes been expecting the one from his nightmare the one hes had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments the one with the darkness & the wind & the screaming... The monster in his back garden though this monster is something different. Something ancient something wild. & 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 & 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."