The Crane Wife
- 6 Feb 2014
- 9780857868749
- £9.99
- 320 pp
- 130×200mm
- 4 Apr 2013
- 9780857868732
- £7.19
- 320 pp
- 4 Apr 2013
- 9781782110347
- £20.99
- 8 hrs 42 min
In a few words
The breakout adult novel from bestselling YA author of A Monster Calls and the Chaos Walking series
In a few words
The breakout adult novel from bestselling YA author of The Knife of Never Letting Go and A Monster Calls
In a few words
An audio edition of the breakout adult novel from the bestselling YA author, read unabridged by Jamie Glover
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
The Crane Wife is a special novel: a perfect fusion of surreal imagery and beautifully crafted internal logic. Turning it over in my hands once I'd finished, I began to think of it as the literary equivalent of a Japanese puzzle box with poetry, ideas and jokes twisting and sliding out of it at surprising angles
Helen Brown
Daily TelegraphDelightful and heart-warming
The Crane Wife is a special novel: a perfect fusion of surreal imagery and beautifully crafted internal logic. Turning it over in my hands once I'd finished, I began to think of it as the literary equivalent of a Japanese puzzle box with poetry, ideas and jokes twisting and sliding out of it at surprising angles
Helen Brown
Daily TelegraphA 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
More about
the book
THE EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENS EVERYDAY
One night, George Duncan 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 Chaimoment he watches it fly away, his life is transformed. The next day, a beautiful woman called Kumiko walks into his shop and begins to tell him the most extraordinary story.
Wise, romantic, magical and funny, The Crane Wife is a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love.
More about
the book
THE EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENS EVERYDAY
One night, George Duncan 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 away, his life is transformed. The next day, a beautiful woman called Kumiko walks into his shop and begins to tell him the most extraordinary story.
Wise, romantic, magical and funny, The Crane Wife is a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love.
More about
the book
One night, George Duncan – a 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 an extraordinary new world opens up for George, but no love ever comes without risk . . .
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.
Jamie Glover is an accomplished actor and audiobook narrator. His extensive television credits include Waterloo Road and Trial and Retribution. Recent leading theatre roles include Noises Off at the Old Vic/ Adelphi West End and The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse.
Delightful and heart-warming
The dialogue is natural and inspired, and sparkles with latent tension
A lovely and magical book
T.c. Boyle
This is a novel that treads with feather-deft steps through ordinary lives touched by magic, then takes flight on wing beats of powerful storytelling
Ali Shaw, Author Of The Girl With Glass Feet
The dialogue is natural and inspired, and sparkles with latent tension
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
This is a novel that treads with feather-deft steps through ordinary lives touched by magic, then takes flight on wing beats of powerful storytelling
Ali Shaw, Author Of The Girl With Glass Feet
An insanely beautiful writer
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
Patrick Ness
View profilePatrick Ness is the author of many novels including The Knife of Never Letting Go 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 and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones UK Author of the Year category in the 2013 National Book Awards. 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.
Patrick Ness
View profilePatrick 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 and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones UK Author of the Year category in the 2013 National Book Awards. 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.
Patrick Ness
View profilePatrick Ness has won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Red House, the Galaxy Children’s Book of the Year and is currently shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, and the German Jugendliteraturpreis. He has also been shortlisted for the Waterstones UK Author of the Year category in the 2013 National Book Awards. I In 2012 he was the first person to win both the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Carnegie Prize. His books are published in twenty languages.
