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The monster showed up at midnight.

As they do.

But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting.

He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...

The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.

It wants the truth.

In a unique pairing of Carnegie Medal winners, Patrick Ness spins an extraordinarily moving tale of love, loss and hope from the final idea of Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself.

A Monster Calls won both the 2012 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, the first book ever to do so. It also won the Galaxy National Book Tokens Children's Book of the Year Award and the Red House Children's Book Award 2012. To celebrate this once in a generation book, we're running a giveaway on Goodreads at the moment.

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