patrick ness

After the recent success of the Old Vic’s production as well as the 2016 film version of the novel starring Liam Neeson, A Monster Calls has re-surfaced in bookshops and continued to induce floods of tears amongst its distraught audience.…

Patrick Ness’ short novel A Monster Calls, itself based on an idea by Siobhan Dowd, finally made the leap from concept to cinema blockbuster in late 2016/early 2017. Bittersweet is a term which will be re-visited in this review; Siobhan…