The Crane Wife

Présentation de l'éditeur One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed. The next day, a kind but enigmatic woman walks into George's shop. Suddenly a new world opens up for George, and one night she starts to tell him the most extraordinary story. Wise, romantic, magical and funny, The Crane Wife is a hymn to the creative imagination and a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love. Revue de presse A lovely and magical book (T.C. Boyle ) Patrick Ness is on top form here . . . The Crane Wife is a tale full of bittersweet wonder with a very human soul. A treat. (Matt Haig ) An insanely beautiful writer ( Time Magazine ) Ness is both accessible and sophisticated, handling big subjects in prose that is simple and heart-stopping (Sunday Times (On The Chaos Walking Trilogy) ) Brave and beautiful, full of compassion (Independent (On A Monster Calls) ) Ness is a young writer of exciting quality and unpredictability ( The Times ) A heart-warmingly deranged new voice ( Guardian ) Patrick Ness recreates the world as we know it, infusing it with a charm and whimsy --T.C. Boyle Biographie de l'auteur Patrick Ness is the author of seven novels and a short story collection. He has won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Costa Children's Book Award. In 2012, his bestselling novel A Monster Calls became the first ever to win both the Kate Greenaway and Carnegie Medals. His books are published in over twenty languages. Born in America, he lives in London.