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By (author) David Mitchell

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The dazzling new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas, at once the kaleidoscopic story of an unusual woman”s life, a metaphysical thriller and a profound meditation on mortality and survival.

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”ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY” INDEPENDENT

Winner of the World Fantasy Award and longlisted for the Booker and Folio Prizes
”A triumph”

GUARDIAN

”Fantastical”

OBSERVER

”Epic”

EVENING STANDARD

”Mind-spinning”

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

”Dazzling”

NEW YORK TIMES

The internationally bestselling novel from the author of Cloud Atlas, at once the kaleidoscopic story of an unusual woman”s life, a metaphysical thriller and a profound meditation on mortality and survival
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

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An epic in many voices . . .
a globe-trotting, mind-bending, hair-raising triumph

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He is
funny, hip and full of life . . .
a
beautiful explosion of adventurous ideas

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If only real life were as elegant and generally encouraging as a Mitchell novel! He writes with
scintillating verve and abundance

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600 pages of metafictional shenanigans in
relentlessly brilliant prose . . . Death is at the heart of this novel. And there lies its depth and darkness, bravely concealed with all the wit and sleight of hand and ventriloquistic verbiage and tale-telling bravura of which Mitchell is a master . . . It”s
a whopper of a story

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Fantastical, ambitious, bold and exuberant

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An
epic read

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No one, clearly, has ever told Mitchell that the novel is dead.
He writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience

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A mind-spinning, genre-splicing time-travelling epic

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Mitchell”s
mesmerizing saga is evidence of the power of story to transport us, and even to stop time entirely

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An
extraordinary piece of storytelling

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A return to the exuberance and genre-hopping of Cloud Atlas, and
a proper page-turner

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Mitchell is a consummate craftsman . . . For sci-fi fantasists, the imaginary world Mitchell creates might be a thing of wonder, a Dungeons and Dragons for literate grown-ups. For others, I suspect the flesh and blood anguish of a long life lived well against the odds will prove the greater pleasure

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Every page fizzes with energy and humour.
Wildly imaginative and truly magical, this is a big, chunky feast of a book<