The Bone Clocks

A brand new novel from the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of "Cloud Atlas" and "The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet". Beginning in 1984, it follows the life of teenage runaway Holly Sykes from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast as Europe's oil supply dries up. A metaphysical thriller, with flashes of precognition and brief lapses in the laws of reality. 'No other British novelist, to my mind, combines such a darkly futuristic intelligence with such polyphonic ease.' Robert Macfarlane, "The Sunday Times"