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Winner · World Fantasy Awards 2015

The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

2014 novel by David Mitchell

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. A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied 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.

Synopsis from Open Library.

Language
English
Genre
science fiction
Pages
656
ISBN
9788374806312
Subjects
FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles, FICTION / Fantasy / General, FICTION / Literary, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2014-09-21, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed

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