She is in a house of healing, a 'clinic' staffed by female healers, as opposed to male doctors, for her gunshot wound. He expresses his displeasure at the easiness of taking over, claiming that the people will pay for the lack of war.Įlsewhere, Viola awakens. The Mayor organises a speech as the rest of his army marches in. He has also separated the males and females, and imprisons all domestic Spackle who live in the town. Ledger explains that Haven discovered a cure for Noise, but Mayor Prentiss (now President Prentiss) has confiscated it for sole use by leaders of New Prentisstown. He is forced to live in the town's clock tower with the previous Mayor, Con Ledger. Resuming directly after The Knife of Never Letting Go, Todd Hewitt is captured by the Mayor's army in Haven, renamed New Prentisstown, but his only concern is for Viola. ( June 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. Compelling, powerful and often painful, it may be Ness's darkest novel to date: yet even its most bleak moments are carefully balanced with notes of humour and hopefulness.This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Combining elements of a sci-fi thriller with the abstract and philosophical, this is a bold and unusual story, beautifully written and shot through with a poignant sense of melancholy.

Could this be hell? Seth heads out across the apocalyptic landscape in search of answers, but what he finds is more unexpected than anything he could have imagined.Ĭarnegie Medal-winning author Patrick Ness tackles weighty questions of life and death head on in this provocative and challenging young adult novel. Each time he closes his eyes, he is tormented by agonising memories of his former life – his relationships with his family and friends, and the events that led to his death. But now the neighbourhood he once knew is completely abandoned and covered with dust.Īlone and afraid, Seth tries to make sense of his situation. The place is familiar, and Seth soon recognises it as the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before the terrible event that led his family to relocate to America. But just when he believes his life is over, he awakes – naked, bruised, thirsty, in a strange, deserted town.

' Haven't you ever felt like there has to be more? Like there's more out there somewhere, just beyond your grasp, and if you could only get to it?'Ī teenage boy named Seth drowns in the ocean.

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