The Bone Clocks

Author David Mitchell Cover artist Neal Murren Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Drama Publisher Sceptre Publication date 2 September 2014 [1] Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 609 ISBN 0-340-92160-9

The Bone Clocks is a novel by British writer David Mitchell. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014,and called one of the best novels of 2014 by Stephen King

The outline of the plot was provided by Mitchell’s publisher, Sceptre: "In 1984, teenager Holly Sykes runs away from home, a Gravesend pub. Sixty years later, she is to be found in the far west of Ireland, raising a granddaughter as the world’s climate collapses. In between, Holly is encountered as a barmaid in a Swiss resort by an undergraduate sociopath in 1991; has a child with a foreign correspondent covering the Iraq War in 2003; and, widowed, becomes the confidante of a self-obsessed author of fading powers and reputation during the present decade. Yet these changing personae are only part of the story, as Holly’s life is repeatedly intersected by a slow-motion war between a cult of predatory soul-decanters and a band of vigilantes led by one Doctor Marinus. Holly begins as an unwitting pawn in this war – but may prove to be its decisive weapon