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The knife of never letting go trilogy6/27/2023 ![]() "The thing a teenage audience will do for you is that if you don't insult their intelligence, they will often follow you to strange places, so you can really really go for it. He turned to children's fiction after he had the idea of a world where information overload is inescapable, and knew it was a book for teenagers. Before I Die is a huge hit, Frank is a great writer, and I'm reading Siobhan Dowd now, it's really great and I kind of thought she would win."Ī corporate writer at a cable company in the US until he was made redundant and used the payoff to set up as a novelist in the UK, Ness has previously written a novel, The Crash of Hennington, and a short story collection, Topics About Which I Know Nothing, both for adults. "I think it was a super-strong shortlist. Ness said he was "genuinely astonished" to win. ![]() With only his singularly chatty dog Manchee ("Need a poo, Todd") and the mysteriously silent Viola for company, Todd fights to survive and to learn the dark secrets behind Prentisstown's facade. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Knife of Never Letting Go traces the journey of 12-year-old Todd Hewitt after he is forced to flee the stifling male-only environs of Prentisstown, where the thoughts of each inhabitant, man and beast, are a never-ending swell of Noise. ![]()
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