The Bone Clocks

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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.

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‘ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY’ Independent

Winner of the World Fantasy Award and longlisted for the Booker and Folio Prizes

‘A triumph’
Guardian

‘Fantastical’
Observer

‘Epic’
Evening Standard

‘Mind-spinning’
Independent on Sunday

‘Dazzling’
New York Times

The internationally bestselling novel from the author of Cloud Atlas, at once the kaleidoscopic story of an unusual woman’s life, a metaphysical thriller and a profound meditation on mortality and survival

Run away, one drowsy summer’s afternoon, with Holly Sykes: wayward teenager, broken-hearted rebel and unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflict.

Over six decades, the consequences of a moment’s impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imagining. And as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family’s survival . . .

PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL

‘A thrilling and gifted writer’
Financial Times

‘Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good’
Daily Mail

‘Mitchell is, clearly, a genius’
New York Times Book Review

‘An author of extraordinary ambition and skill’
Independent on Sunday

‘A superb storyteller’
The New Yorker

Additional information

Weight 0.444 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 13.5 × 4.2 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

613

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K