Though the world depicted in these pages has a familiarly depressed, Thatcher-era grimness, Holly proves herself to be an original. This is true of his latest book, which is broken up into six sections, all of which loop back and around to give us another decade in the life of the book's main character, Holly Sykes.Īt the start of The Bone Clocks, Holly is a 15-year-old girl in England. If you've read Cloud Atlas, then you know that what happens in a David Mitchell novel is often wild and complicated, and completely unexpected. But then he went on to add, "Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."ĭavid Mitchell's novels appear to have been written according to dozens of byzantine rules, and the author definitely seems to know what they are, but he's not telling. "There are three rules for writing a novel," Somerset Maugham supposedly once said. First Reads Exclusive First Read: 'The Bone Clocks' By David Mitchell
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