The following five sections propel us forward in time, and as we speed through the decades, meeting a host of characters in locations all over the world, something in the background becomes ever clearer, something darker and more disturbing. Of course, with this being a Mitchell book, there’s far more to these seemingly random events than initially meets the eye. Over the course of this journey, she bumps into a boy from her school and an old woman who asks her for an unusual favour, just the start of an action-packed weekend. When she decides to ask him to let her stay for a while, she finds out that, as always, mum knows best, but too ashamed to skulk back home, she decides to head off on a lengthy walk, hoping to find somewhere to stay, for a few days at least. The first part of The Bone Clocks is told by Holly Sykes, a teenager running away from home after an argument with her mum about an older boyfriend. It’s 2020, the world’s in turmoil, and I’m not getting many review copies – that point is now □ Alas, this was around the time that my reading diet was taking a decided turn towards fiction in translation, so when the book landed on my doorstep, it was put to one side, with a promise that I’d get to it at some point. I loved Mitchell’s early work, so when I heard that he had another book out, back in 2014, I entered a Twitter competition and was fortunate enough to win a copy of the novel in question, namely The Bone Clocks. channels.When I saw online a couple of weeks back that David Mitchell’s new novel Utopia Street was about to come out, it reminded me that there was a rather chunky skeleton lurking at the back of my bookish equivalent of a closet. “ time-traveling, culture-crossing, genre-bending marvel of a novel.” - O: The Oprah Magazine offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation.” - The Washington Post “ writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience.” - The New York Times Book Review “One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I’ve read in a long time.” -Meg Wolitzer, NPR Named to more than 20 year-end best of lists, including His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling pleasure-it is fiction at its most spellbinding. Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer The Washington Post calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction.”Īn elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves-even the ones who are not yet born.Ī Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list-all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.įor Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics-and their enemies. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. “With The Bone Clocks, Mitchell rises to meet and match the legacy of Cloud Atlas.”- Los Angeles Timesįollowing a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. An American Library Association Notable Book.Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine.The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas
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