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More Than This

Patrick Ness

2013479 pagesabout 7–11 hours
2013
first published
  • 2013Candlewick Press · 480 pages · ENG
  • 2014Candlewick Press · ENGISBN 9781484433089
  • 2016Candlewick on Brilliance AudioISBN 9781531824150
  • 2014Candlewick · 480 pagesISBN 9780763676209
  • 2013Walker Books Ltd · 479 pages · ENGISBN 9781406331158
  • 2014Walker BooksISBN 9781406350487
  • 2013Brilliance Audio Lib EdnISBN 9781480559448
  • WalkerISBN 9781406350456

A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he is here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighbourhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust and completely abandoned. What's going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this...

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