Following A Scalding Row With Her Mother, Fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes Slams The Door On Her Old Life. But Holly Is No Typical Teenage Runaway: A Sensitive Child Once Contacted By Voices She Knew Only As The Radio People, Holly Is A Lightning Rod For Psychic Phenomena. Now, As She Wanders Deeper Into The English Countryside, Visions And Coincidences Reorder Her Reality Until They Assume The Aura Of A Nightmare Brought To Life. For Holly Has Caught The Attention Of A Cabal Of Dangerous Mystics -- And Their Enemies. But Her Lost Weekend Is Merely The Prelude To A Shocking Disappearance That Leaves Her Family Irrevocably Scarred. This Unsolved Mystery Will Echo Through Every Decade Of Holly's Life, Affecting All The People Holly Loves -- Even The Ones Who Are Not Yet Born. A Cambridge Scholarship Boy Grooming Himself For Wealth And Influence, A Conflicted Father Who Feels Alive Only While Reporting From Occupied Iraq, A Middle-aged Writer Mourning His Exile From The Bestseller List -- All Have A Part To Play In This Surreal, Invisible War On The Margins Of Our World. From The Medieval Swiss Alps To The Nineteenth-century Australian Bush, From A Hotel In Shanghai To A Manhattan Townhouse In The Near Future, Their Stories Come Together In Moments Of Everyday Grace And Extraordinary Wonder. David Mitchell. Issued Also In Electronic Format.