I thought there was so much power there, and it felt like that was the permission I had to proceed.ĪD: How did you prepare to take it on? Were you familiar with her style? That’s the power, the transgression, his contained rage that he has no outlet for and doesn’t know what to do with it. I thought that’s actually everything I want. The very first idea I had was the scene was when Conor comes out of the second tale to discover that he’s discovered his grandmother’s sitting room. The worst outcome was that I could write a bad book. Siobhan would have let it grow organically. Are you writing a memorial? Or are you writing a story? She would not have done a memorial. You have to pay attention to the story first. My first reaction was to say no because I was worried that a good book doesn’t get written that way. After she died, my editor brought the material to me and asked if I’d consider turning it her material into a book. She had written these wonderful books, and at the time of her death, we shared an editor. Patrick Ness: Unexpectedly is the answer. Bayona direct the book and bring it all to life.Īwards Daily: How did it begin for you? This was initially a journey that Siobhan Dowd started, and you finished? I caught up with Ness recently and we talked about how it felt to have the baton passed to him, and then for him to pass it on to Jim Kay to illustrate, and finally to have J.A. His mother is dying from an illness, and the monster helps Conor understand what he needs, the truth. The end result is A Monster Calls, a story about young Conor who is visited by a monster in the middle of the night at the same time. Ness was reluctant to take on the task of completing the book at first, but rather than write a tribute to Dowd’s work, he decided the best thing to do would be to make it a book that she would be proud of. He didn’t expect he’d be finishing a book that Dowd started after she unexpectedly passed away from cancer. Patrick Ness shared the same editor as Siobhan Dowd, and he was already familiar with her work.
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