The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking)

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking)

by Patrick Ness BA in English Literature (1st class) (Author)

Synopsis

This is an unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans...Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Publisher: Walker
Published: 05 May 2008

ISBN 10: 1406310255
ISBN 13: 9781406310252
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
Prizes: Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2008 and Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008. Shortlisted for Carnegie Medal 2009.

Media Reviews
* Ness is a young writer of exciting quality and unpredictability. The Times * One of the best first sentences I've ever read and a book that lives up to it! Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Author Bio
Patrick Ness is the author of two critically acclaimed works of fiction, The Crash of Hennington and Topics About Which I Know Nothing. An award-winning novelist, he has also written for Radio 4, the Sunday Telegraph and is currently literary critic for the Guardian. This is his first book for young adults.