Having reinvented the dystopian Young Adult fiction with his Chaos Walking series, Patrick Ness follows up with a novel for adults, and what a novel! The first chapter introduces sad, broken, middle-aged George, woken one cold night by an unearthly sound. He finds a wounded crane in his garden, shot through the wing by an arrow. Not knowing what to do, he removes the arrow, the crane flies away, and George's life changes forever. This is a most unexpected and surprising novel, it is not quite what it appears, and it to say much more would be to give too much away. It's a story of great wisdom about the human heart, it's romantic, fantastical, redemptive and real. This is a book to treasure and to share. I loved it.