A Monster Calls
(3 reviews with an average rating of 4 out of 5)
Publisher: Walker Books
Connor's mum has cancer and life is irrevocably, disturbingly changing. First there is the nightmare, filled with screaming and falling; then there is school, where people avoid him (not knowing what to say), or persecute him.
There is his enforced, combative intimacy with his distant, spiky gran. And then there is the Monster, immense, tree-like, mythic.
He comes at night, makes Connor listen to un-story-like stories, pushes him to the edge of what is bearable - because 'you know that your truth, the one that you hide, Connor O'Malley, is the thing you are most afraid of'.
Visceral, dark, sad, beautiful, hopeful and really, really angry, this is a beautifully structured, dense, layered novel about the monster that touches us all at some point. This extraordinary book was the first ever to win both the CILIP Carnegie and the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals.
What you thought...
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mason wass, 15 Tachwedd 2023
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Interesting to read this book
Cezar, 29 Mawrth 2020
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Very good book
Hardi, 10 Chwefror 2020
very tense book but made me keep reading till 3:00