Bone Clocks - Softcover

David Mitchell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340921625 ISBN 13: 9780340921623

Publisher: Sceptre, 2015

Synopsis

''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

About this title

Review

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, September 2014: Fans of David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet) have been salivating over the release of The Bone Clocks —and they have every reason to. This is a feast of a book—perhaps the author’s best to date—a saga that spans decades, characters, genres, and events from Mitchell's other novels. The structure is most similar to Cloud Atlas, with The Bone Clocks pivoting around a central character: Holly Sykes. Each chapter/novella is narrated from the perspective of an intersecting character, with settings ranging from England in the 80s to the apocalyptic future. Each story could stand alone as a work of genius, as they slowly build on Holly’s unwitting role in a war between two groups with psychic powers, culminating in a thrilling showdown reminiscent of the best of Stephen King. Taken together this is a hugely entertaining page-turner, an operatic fantasy, and an often heartbreaking meditation on mortality. It’s not to be missed. – Matt Kaye

About the Author

David Mitchell is one of the most acclaimed authors of his generation - 'Just about the most audacious, thrilling and, above all, entertaining young British novelist there is' (Observer). He has been shortlisted twice for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted four times, as well as won the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, and the Richard & Judy Best Read. He was also selected as one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and named by Time as one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2007. His previous novels are Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, which was adapted for film in 2012, Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. In 2013, The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice From the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida was published in a translation from the Japanese by David Mitchell and KA Yoshida. It was an immediate bestseller in the UK and later in the US as well. The Bone Clocks is David Mitchell's sixth novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sceptre
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340921625
• ISBN 13: 9780340921623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640