The Bone Clocks

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The stunning new 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.

One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades pass before Holly understands what sort asylum the woman was seeking...

The Bone Clocks follows Holly's life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's coast - a life not so extraordinary, yet punctuated by flashes of precognition and brief lapses in the laws of reality. Holly Sykes - daughter, sister, mother, guardian - is also an unwitting player in a murderous feud played out in the shadows and margins of our world, and she may prove to be its decisive weapon.