The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell wood insular world in post-World War

insular world in post-World War II England

that there is no love between them

those who have escaped from bondage

but thrive

so does the risk

The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell wood insular world in post-World WarOne drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway holly sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking . The bone clocks follows the twists and turns of holly's life from a scarred adolescence in gravesend to old age on ireland's atlantic coast as europe's oil supply dries up a life not so far out of the ordinary, yet