Here the desperate honesty and refusal to compromise do allow for a sort of brutal clarity to emerge, and from that finally a glimpse of something like hope. A happy ending would have been a betrayal of the kind of bracingly honest book this is, but hope can be hard to come by in such a story. Received wisdom dictates that books published for children need endings that are, if not exactly happy, then at least hopeful. Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times * A Monster Calls takes Dowd's preliminary idea, and draws out of that bud a tale that has nothing of the hybrid about it. Both realistic and magical, it is a fable about the complexity of our emotions, giving us permission to feel anger and illuminating the nature of loss. * Time Out * Powerfully felt, this is stylistically Ness's book, but communicates Dowd-like wisdom. This award-winning, uncompromising novel is a valuable read for older children struggling to understand life's unavoidable trials.
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