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The Bone Clocks

  • 656 pages · about 11 hours
  • First published 2014
  • 15 editions

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1 About this book

Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. 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. 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.

For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics -- and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. 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.

Good for readers who want: science fiction, fantasy, and a long read.

  • Science fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Fantasy, contemporary
  • Satire
  • Imaginary wars and battles
  • Cults
  • Conspiracies
  • Secret societies

2 About David Mitchell

Born 1969

David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist and screenwriter, who has also translated two children's books. He has written nine novels, two of which, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written articles for several newspapers, most notably for The Guardian. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2013.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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