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The Wide, Wide Sea

The Wide, Wide Sea

DystopianYA
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

A Chaos Walking short story to read with The Ask and the Answer.This moving Chaos Walking short story, set before the Spackle War in a small fishing village by the sea, is a heartbreaking tale of love and loyalty in a divided world. Best read immediately after The Ask and the Answer, it features familiar characters such as Mistress Coyle, but will give a new perspective on the shocking events in the award-winning trilogy.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

DarkMelancholic

Genres

Dystopian YA

About the author

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Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness (born 17 October 1971 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is an American-British author, journalist and screenwriter, best known for young-adult fiction including the Chaos Walking trilogy (The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, Monsters of Men) and A Monster Calls. He moved to London in 1999 and was naturalised as a British citizen in 2005. He is one of only two authors to win the Carnegie Medal in consecutive years, for Monsters of Men (2011) and A Monster Calls (2012).