Bone Clocks

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David Mitchell: Bone Clocks (2014, Penguin Random House)

English language

Published 2014 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-322-07664-5
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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 …

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A creepy extension of the Mitchellverse

5 stars

I don't know, there's no book of David Mitchell I haven't loved. They aren't perfect, some stuff really weirds me out hardcore, but they're always fascinating. The Bone Clocks fits that scheme as well.

The Bone Clocks covers a timeline of the mid-80s to the year 2043. We get a total of five different PoV characters, and every story shares that it's about the first point of view character, Holly Sykes. Holly heard 'radio voices' as a child but was cured of that by a Chinese doctor. As a teenager she runs away from home because of a tosser boyfriend, and has some kind of supernatural event occur. She eventually finds out that her precocious younger brother Jacko has disappeared.

Over the course of the other stories, we find out that Jacko never re-appeared, that Holly turns into a famous author writing about the voices in her head, and that …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, fantasy, contemporary
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • Fiction, satire