The Bone Clocks

By: David Mitchell

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Hardcover | 2 September 2014 | Edition Number 1

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608 Pages

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23.5 x 16.3 x 5.0

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Metaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality and chronicle of our self-devouring times, this is the kaleidoscopic new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS UK AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2014

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014

LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015

One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking . . .

The Bone Clocks follows the twists and turns of Holly's life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast as Europe's oil supply dries up - a life not so far out of the ordinary, yet punctuated by flashes of precognition, visits from people who emerge from thin air and brief lapses in the laws of reality. For Holly Sykes - daughter, sister, mother, guardian - is also an unwitting player in a murderous feud played out in the shadows and margins of our world, and may prove to be its decisive weapon.

Industry Reviews

Open up Mitchell's head and a whole magical, ecstatic symphony of inventiveness and ideas will fly out as if from a benign and felicitous Pandora's box. Read him. - The Times

No other British novelist, to my mind, combines such a darkly futuristic intelligence with such polyphonic ease. - The Sunday Times

The most audacious, thrilling and, above all, entertaining young British novelist there is. - Observer

One of the most brilliantly inventive writers in this or any country - Independent

The most impressive fictional mind of his generation - Observer

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