By Patrick Ness
ISBN-10: 1406335460
ISBN-13: 9781406335460
A #1 big apple Times bestseller
An unflinching, darkly humorous, and deeply relocating tale of a boy, his heavily unwell mom, and an unforeseen large visitor.
At seven mins previous hour of darkness, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to discover a monster outdoors his bed room window. however it is not the monster Conor's been expecting-- he is been watching for the only from his nightmare, the nightmare he is had approximately each evening due to the fact that his mom begun her remedies. The monster in his yard is diverse. it truly is old. And wild. And it desires anything from Conor. whatever negative and unsafe. It wishes the reality. From the ultimate notion of award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd-- whose untimely dying from melanoma avoided her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly humorous novel of mischief, loss, and monsters either genuine and imagined.
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He looked up past his house to the hill beyond, the church steeple poking up into the cloudy sky. And the yew tree hovering over the graveyard like a sleeping giant. Conor forced himself to keep looking at it, making himself see that it was just a tree, a tree like any other, like any one of those that lined the railway track. A tree. That’s all it was. That’s all it ever was. A tree. A tree that, as he watched, reared up a giant face to look at him in the sunlight, its arms reaching out, its voice saying, Conor– He stepped back so fast, he nearly fell into the street, catching himself on the bonnet of a parked car.
Conor said. ” Then come outside, the monster said, and even in his room, Conor’s nose filled with the moist smell of earth and wood and sap. ” Conor said. The monster pressed its face close to the window. It is not what I want from you, Conor O’Malley, it said. It is what you want from me. “I don’t want anything from you,” Conor said. Not yet, said the monster. But you will. “It’s only a dream,” Conor said to himself in the back garden, looking up at the monster silhouetted against the moon in the night sky.
A tree. A tree that, as he watched, reared up a giant face to look at him in the sunlight, its arms reaching out, its voice saying, Conor– He stepped back so fast, he nearly fell into the street, catching himself on the bonnet of a parked car. When he looked back up, it was just a tree again. THREE STORIES He lay in his bed that night, wide awake, watching the clock on his bedside table. It had been the slowest evening imaginable. Cooking frozen lasagne had tired his mum out so badly she fell asleep five minutes into EastEnders.
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