The Crane Wife

Author(s): Patrick Ness

General Fiction

The extraordinary happens everyday. One night, George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly away, his life is transformed. The next day, a beautiful woman called Kumiko walks into his shop and begins to tell him the most extraordinary story. Wise, romantic, magical and funny, The Crane Wife is a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love.


Product Information

Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: Waterstone's UK Author of the Year 2013.

Patrick Ness is the author of seven novels and a short story collection. He has won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Costa Children's Book Award and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones UK Author of the Year category in the 2013 National Book Awards. In 2012, his bestselling novel A Monster Calls became the first ever to win both the Kate Greenaway and Carnegie Medals. His books are published in over twenty languages. Born in America, he lives in London.

General Fields

  • : 9780857868749
  • : Canongate Books Ltd
  • : Canongate Books Ltd
  • : January 2014
  • : March 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Patrick Ness
  • : Paperback