The astonishing opener to Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking trilogy, soon to be a major feature film starring Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley and Mads Mikkelsen
Patrick Ness was born on an army base called Fort Belvoir, near
Alexandria, Virginia, in the United States where his father was a
drill sergeant in the US Army. Patrick’s family soon moved to
Hawaii, where he lived until I was almost six and he later lived in
Washington and Los Angeles.
After studying English Literature at the University of Southern
California, Patrick got a job as a corporate writer at a cable
company in Los Angeles, writing manuals and speeches and once even
an advertisement for the Gilroy, California Garlic Festival. His
writing career started with the publication of his first story in
Genre magazine in 1997. Since then, Patrick moved to London and has
had two adult books published and also taught creative writing at
Oxford. Humphrey Bower is a gifted and versatile actor. Since
obtaining a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature at Oxford
University, he has worked extensively in theatre, television and
audiobook narration. Humphrey won the prestigious Audie Award (US)
for his performance of The Family Frying Pan by Bryce Courtenay,
and was shortlisted for an Audie Award for his performances of
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan and Brother Fish by Bryce
Courtenay. Humphrey's sensitive and intelligent readings are highly
regarded and he is well-known for his capacity to perform a variety
of accents.
'Pure inventiveness and excitement.'
*Booklist*
'A stunning debut ... As compelling as it is original.'
*The Times*
'Furiously paced, terrifying, exhilarating, and heartbreaking, [it]
haunts your imagination.'
*The Sunday Telegraph*
'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*
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