And the Ocean Was Our Sky

"Mind-bendingly brilliant and fearlessly strange." - Frances Hardinge"A haunting, lyrical fable." - The Bookseller"Awe-inspiring." - The Times, Children's Book of the WeekFrom the multi-award-winning author of A Monster Calls comes a haunting tale of power and obsession that turns the story of Moby Dick upside down.The whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt. Led by the formidable Captain Alexandra, they fight a never-ending war against men. Then the whales attack a man ship, and instead of easy prey they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself... With their relentless Captain leading the chase, they embark on the final hunt, one that will forever change the worlds of whales and men.

About the author

Patrick Ness was born in the USA, and now lives in London. He writes both novels and short stories for adults and children, but is best known for his books for young adults. His first books for teenagers make up the Chaos Walking trilogy, of which the first book, The Knife of Never Letting Go, won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize, followed by The Ask and the Answer, which won the Costa Award. All three titles in the trilogy were shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal, an unprecedented event, and in 2011 the third title, Monsters of Men, won the award. Patrick’s sixth book, A Monster Calls, was based on an original idea by Siobhan Dowd and illustrated by Jim Kay. It won every major prize in children’s fiction, including the Galaxy National Book Award, the UKLA Book Award and the Red House Children’s Book Award. In 2012 it became the first book ever to win both the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal. Patrick has also written the screenplay for the film of A Monster Calls. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and starring Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver and Felicity Jones, the film was released in 2016. The first film in the Chaos Walking series was released in 2021. Patrick Ness's critically-acclaimed novels include More Than This, The Rest of Just Live Here, Release, And the Ocean Was Our Sky and Burn.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Ness, Ness Patrick
• Assisted by: Rovina Cai (Illustration)
• Publisher: Walker Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 16
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781406385861
• ISBN: 978-1-4063-8586-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 250 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Animals / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Classics, Animal stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Science & Nature / General