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锘縇isten to Simon chat with author Patrick Ness about writing his latest novel More Than This.

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. How is that possible? He remembers dying. More Than This is an unflinching, powerful and provocative novel chronicling the life - or perhaps afterlife - of a teenager trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world.

Patrick Ness is a double Carnegie Medal winner and is the author of seven books, inculding the bestselling Chaos Walking trilogy. He is published in over twenty languages and his book, The Knife Of Never Letting Go, has just been adapted by screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. He has always wanted to write a book about waking up alone on a planet, since the day he knew he wanted to be a writer, and More Than This is exactly that.

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