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.
Categories:
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Dystopian
- Science Fiction
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Author : Mitchell, David
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2014-09-02
Number Of Pages : 640
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0676979319
ISBN-13 : 9780676979312
Item weight : 2.38 lb
Dimensions : 1.57 in x 6.14 in x 9.29 in
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