The Knife of Never Letting Go: 10th Anniversary edition

By Patrick Ness

A special anniversary edition, with a striking new cover design, to celebrate 10 years of the Chaos Walking trilogy.

Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in a constant, overwhelming Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets. Then Todd Hewitt unexpectedly stumbles on a spot of complete silence. Which is impossible. And now he’s going to have to run… This new edition marks the 10th anniversary of the award-winning modern classic, soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley.

Categories: Fiction

For readers aged: 14+

  • Publication details:
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781406379167
  • Published: 01 Feb 2018
  • Price: £8.99
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  • Size: 198 x 129 mm
  • Pages: 496

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'The story, narrated sparkily and saltily by its hero Todd, unpeels Prentisstown's dark secrets like the layers of a very rotten onion. Ness, an acclaimed author of adult fiction as well, moves things along at a breakneck pace, and Todd's world is filled with memorable characters, foul villains.' Financial Times

'An impossibly good novel. It is at once endearing yet unsentimental; compassionate yet damning; exhaustingly exhilarating and yet tempered by a staid and considered emotivity. Written in the first-person present tense in an unapologetically impudent manner, this novel captures exceptionally the brash bravado and the underlying insecurities that actively teem inside the minds and explode in the actions of boys on their path to manhood.' www.inthenews.co.uk

'THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL excellent debuts in recent months and perhaps the most impressive is Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go. It's the story of Todd, the last boy in a community of men. In Prentisstown, the Noise virus has left men with the ability to hear each other's thoughts, those of animals too. The idea may send shivers up the spine, but how different is it to the constant intrusion of e-mails, texts, advertisements and CCTV we already suffer? When Todd finds a lone girl in the marshes he realises they have to escape, which isn't easy when your hunters can hear your every thought. Written in Todd's characteristic vernacular and brimming over with ideas about adolescence, faith and free will, this is intelligent, immersive storytelling.' The Scotsman

'A book like no other. It's one of the most gripping, fantastical reads around.' Sunday Express

'Darkly imagined and brilliantly created, the painful dystopian setting of a world full of noise in which all thoughts can be heard as if spoken is the background to this tense coming of age story.' The Guardian

'An amazing book that should be seen as a classic' Books for Keeps

'An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.' Southern Reporter

'The first book in an electrifying and multi-award winning trilogy' ‘S’ (Supplement to Sunday Express)

'One of the boldest, bravest and most original novels of the last 10 years . . . it will take your breath away' Sunday Mail Glasgow, Book of the Week

'I don’t think I could speak highly enough of this book; it was just pure brilliance ' Growing Wings

'This harrowing and immersive book completely reimagines the possibilities of dystopian young adult fiction' Rolling Stone

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