A monster calls

"The bestselling novel about love loss and the power of story-telling from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness soon to be a major motion picture. Conor has the same dream every night ever since his mother first fell ill ever since she started the treatments that dont quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight when he wakes theres a visitor at his window. Its ancient elemental a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves an extraordinary and heartbreaking tale of mischief healing and above all the courage it takes to survive."