The Crash of Hennington

The Crash of Hennington
Patrick Ness

Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and new novel ‘More Than This’.Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the award-winning author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, ‘A Monster Calls’ and and new novel ‘More Than This’.Welcome to the seaside metropolis of Hennington, where a mysterious herd of rhinoceros has wandered city streets for so long it’s become a civic feature, where the current mayor first met her husband on a nude beach, and where Jon Noth has returned after four decades to reclaim a lost love.Unfortunately for him, that lost love is Cora Larsson, long-time mayor of Hennington, happily (and flexibly) married – and still not interested …

THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON

Patrick Ness

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Version: 2017-01-03

‘Souls have complexions, too: what will suit one will not suit another.’

GEORGE ELIOT Middlemarch

For Marc Nowell

And in memory of my remarkable great aunt, Ingeborg Utheim 1915–1999

Contents

Cover (#u85b5f7ed-4043-5fe4-8361-52f605025cdd)

Title Page (#u00b64e7d-f7f2-5d42-aa6b-9097d81856ef)

Copyright (#ulink_621b43a3-36a0-5887-9d12-ea721d7a44ab)

Prologue. In. (#ulink_cf2664c3-ea56-5634-ac64-4d8c5154dfb1)

Part I. Welcome to Hennington. (#litres_trial_promo)

1. The Solari. (#ulink_24a90b08-ae05-54db-aa97-edacb14f4a13)

2. A Confluence of Nudity. (#ulink_f91a4251-748b-55a0-a9b9-3d0c0eaace68)

3. The Crash on the Hill. (#ulink_527899dd-5c62-504e-9429-3e1ee3a7a65e)

4. Luther in Limbo. (#ulink_57425b3d-3380-5741-907a-17176796cde2)

5. Maggerty. (#ulink_52f57d99-da9d-5efd-8233-872515056699)

6. The Mayor’s Office and its Discontents. (#ulink_11b56697-b338-5be8-8fd9-1dcc9e62bdd8)

7. Father and Daughter. (#ulink_59f460c6-3624-5222-a761-463f6a610887)

8. Mathematica. (#ulink_fdcded4f-0cf3-50db-bb92-5904f7b59553)

9. Hospitality. (#ulink_91abe1ee-5114-5680-9293-6e6b0ea063c3)

10. The Crash at the Bridge. (#ulink_bb076ca3-61bd-55a6-b74f-74cfc1b95cab)

11. Orthopediae. (#ulink_42d2c552-c6b7-577c-b53b-993b960ec2df)

12. The Melting Sanctuary. (#ulink_b0765f40-3f69-5849-9f61-d1476b5ac545)

13. Maggerty Eats. (#ulink_29ca6320-eff1-5f13-a8cb-605aa566a186)

14. Peter on the Move. (#ulink_bf414d4f-122b-5982-b9bb-3128288ce8b4)

15. An Offer. (#ulink_5e528795-4a30-5abe-a4a5-ce3078c01345)

16. Why Archie Banyon Feels the Way He Does About Women. (#ulink_2a3172b4-2c25-5c36-86d5-556c6d8af754)

17. ‘The Tale of Rufus and Rhonda'. (#ulink_b3bba542-e043-515b-898d-32378c619814)

18. Mingle, Mingle. (#ulink_4edf0ff8-a669-551a-843b-f340264b330b)

19. Duty Calling. (#ulink_cba93a4c-6292-5074-af74-b7f788c9542a)

20. In the Hours Before Morning. (#ulink_9497058c-a0e0-5456-9b5a-2457af4ba17b)

21. The Crash Before Dawn. (#ulink_a54136e8-ba42-52d1-9e44-98d8efcf656b)