I’ve written nine books: 2 novels for adults ( The Crash of Hennington and The Crane Wife), 1 short story collection for adults ( Topics About Which I Know Nothing) and 6 novels for young adults ( The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, Monsters of Men, A Monster Calls, More Than This and The Rest of Us Just Live Here).įor these books, I’ve won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Red House Book Award, the Jugendliteratur Preis, the UKLA Award, the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the fabulous, fabulous, fabulous Jim Kay also won the Greenaway for his illustrations in A Monster Calls (so buy that version, would you?).

Then I lived in California for college (at USC) and moved to the United Kingdom in 1999, where I’ve lived (mostly in London) ever since. I claim three states in America as my home (as Americans are wont to do): I was born in Virginia, my first memories are Hawaiian, and I went to junior high and high school in Washington. The Rest of Us Just Live Here will be published by Walker Books in hardback on 28 August 2015.I’m Patrick Ness. It is due to hit screens in Christmas 2016. Patrick’s multi-award-winning novel A Monster Calls is currently being adapted into a film, starring Liam Neeson as the monster.

“In The Rest of Us Just Live Here he breaks new ground, making the ordinary seem extraordinary and the extraordinary ordinary,” she said. Patrick’s publisher at Walker Books, Denise Johnstone-Burt called Patrick “the outstanding YA author of his generation.” all the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. The excerpt, published on Patrick’s Tumblr blog, reads: “I wanted to write a novel for anyone trying to live a normal life in a world gone mad, for anyone who actually has bigger problems than this week’s end of the world, for anyone who needs to find out that there are many different kinds of extraordinary.” On the inspiration behind his next book, Patrick Ness said he asked himself, “What if you lived in a world a lot like a YA novel? Where people you know have already battled vampires and zombies and soul-eating ghosts and whatever this new thing turns out to be? What if you just want to go to prom and graduate before someone goes and blows up the high school again?” On the day we’re the last people to see indie kid Finn alive, we’re all sprawled together in The Field, talking about love and stomachs.

The first line of The Rest of Us Just Live Here is:

Patrick ness the rest of us live here