Rhîmes then tries to kill Holly but is stopped by the reanimated corpse of first Heidi and later Ian. She is then attacked by a man called Rhîmes who mistakes her for Esther Little but soon comes to realize she has no powers at all. After breakfast Holly washes up and then goes outside where she finds the couple dead. She is picked up by a young college-aged couple, Heidi and Ian, who believe in communism and take her to their home. After securing the job by phone, Holly hitchhikes towards the farm. He talks about working on a strawberry farm in Kent. Afterwards she encounters Ed Brubeck, an acquaintance, who feeds and helps shelter her. Holly, who was once plagued by auditory hallucinations, then has a violent daymare involving her brother Jacko and several of the violent voices she recognizes from childhood. Holly consents to the strange offer, thinking the woman insane.
She nevertheless decides to keep running away alone and meets Esther Little, an older woman who insists on giving her green tea in exchange for asylum. Arriving at her boyfriend's home, Holly finds him in bed with her best friend. Before she leaves, her younger brother Jacko hands her a maze and tells her to memorize it. The book consists of six stories set during different times of Holly’s life.įifteen-year-old Holly Sykes runs away from home to live with her 24-year-old boyfriend. The title refers to a derogatory term the immortal characters use for normal humans, who are doomed to mortality because of their aging bodies. They are loosely connected by the character of Holly Sykes, a young woman from Gravesend who is gifted with an "invisible eye" and semi- psychic abilities, and a war between two immortal factions, the Anchorites, who derive their immortality from murdering others, and the Horologists, who are naturally able to reincarnate. The novel is divided into six sections with five first-person point-of-view narrators.
The novel won the 2015 World Fantasy Award. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014, and called one of the best novels of 2014 by Stephen King.
The Bone Clocks is a novel by British writer David Mitchell.
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