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Find out moreA special anniversary edition, with a striking new cover design, to celebrate 10 years of the Chaos Walking trilogy. Prize-winning author Patrick Ness follows up The Knife of Never Letting Go with equally hard hitting The Ask and the Answer. Trying to escape, Todd and Viola fall into the hands of Mayor Prentiss. Separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd can tell there are some deep and dark secrets outside the town. Who are the mysterious Answer? As gripping as The Knife of Never Letting Go, this is a tough but compelling story which takes readers into shocking and moving territory.
Winner of the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 - the judges acclaimed it as “a major achievement in the making”
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010.
Shortlisted for the Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009.
CILIP CARNEGIE Medal SHORTLIST 2010: Judges’ comments
"A visceral and compelling story of incredible power which combines some fantastic writing with intelligent consideration of some important issues: the nature of war, terrorism and the treatment of women. A challenging novel which really lives inside your head."
Winner of the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 - the judges acclaimed it as “a major achievement in the making”
Shortlisted for the Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009 | Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010 | Winner of the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009
Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd and Viola once again face their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately imprisoned and separated from Viola, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor's new order. And then, one day, the bombs begin to explode...
This new edition marks the 10th anniversary of the Chaos Walking trilogy, soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley.
"Ness is a young writer of exciting quality and unpredictability." The Times
ISBN: | 9781406379174 |
Publication date: | 1st February 2018 |
Author: | Patrick Ness |
Publisher: | Walker Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 528 pages |
Suitable for: | 13+ readers, YA readers |
Genres: | Gritty Reads, Science Fiction |
Recommendations: | eBooks |
Patrick Ness was born on an army base called Fort Belvoir, near Alexandria, Virginia, in the United States. His father was a drill sergeant in the US Army. He lived in Hawaii until he was almost six, spent the ten years after that in suburban Washington state, and then on to Los Angeles, where he studied English Literature at the University of Southern California. His main job after graduating was as corporate writer at a cable company, writing manuals, form letters and speeches and once even an advertisement for the Gilroy, California Garlic Festival (this is true). If you're American ...
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