An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously il
l mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. From the final idea of award-winn
ing author Siobhan Dowd--whose premature death from cancer prevented her from wr
iting it herself--Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, l
oss, and monsters both real and imagined
