The Bone Clocks. By David Mitchell. Random House; 624 pages; $30. Sceptre; 595 pages; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukDAVID MITCHELL’S novels are often made up of interconnecting novellas. His first, “Ghostwritten” (1999), started the trend, and his most accomplished, “Cloud Atlas” (2004), transported the reader through six distinct eras, from historical past to post-apocalyptic future. Mr Mitchell says he had hoped to write 70 stories for his sixth book, “The Bone Clocks”, but stopped far short. Even so, he takes greater risks than ever before—and, for the most part, pulls them off.The link in each section is Holly Sykes. At the start in 1984 she is a teenager in Gravesend on the south bank of the Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex. After a row with her mother she runs away from home. In the book’s final novella, set in 2043, she is nearing the end of her days and fighting for survival on the west coast...
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