# The Bone Clocks

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- Book: [The Bone Clocks](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-mitchell/the-bone-clocks) ([The Bone Clocks.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-mitchell/the-bone-clocks.md))
- Authors: [David Mitchell](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-mitchell)
- Publisher: sceptre
- ISBN: 978-03-4092-162-3
- Published: 2015-06-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT ⭐ Longlisted for the Booker Prize ⭐ Longlisted for the Folio Prize ⭐ Winner of the World Fantasy Award 'A triumph' GUARDIAN 'Epic' EVENING STANDARD 'Mind-spinning' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Dazzling' NEW YORK TIMES 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