Patrick Ness: 'Books are such a private experience and you bring your life to it' - video

Patrick Ness: Even the most realistic novel in the world is completely made up. They are just as fake as a fantastical one. A fantastical reflection can be just as true as a “realistic one”. Photograph: Helen Giles

We’ve been waiting in heady anticipation for Patrick Ness’s latest book after More Than This and The Chaos Walking trilogy. And now it’s here. Our teen site member Afflicted By Books got to talk to Patrick about The Rest of Us Just Live Here, coming out to his evangelical Christian father in America and the future of YA lit.

Check out the wise, wonderful and witty words from Patrick Ness, as told to our site member Afflictedbybooks AKA Sanaya.

• Patrick Ness’s The Rest of Us Just Live Here is available from the Guardian bookshop.