![]() ![]() ![]() In easygoing style, Mitchell catches the rhythms and diction of his English narrators engagingly. However, as I have read all of Mitchell’s novels, I assure you that familiar elements return. Akin to a bearers of a rare blood type, those selected enter a “Theatre of the Mind” where their “birth-bodies” encounter in Slade House their dreams come true.Īvoiding spoilers makes an extended review difficult. Desperate to sustain immortality, a cabal lured a few chosen mortals into what this sequel of sorts explains as “their life-support machine, but it’s powered by souls”. Published a year ago, that ambitious novel set in the recent past and near future tracked supernatural entries into everyday British life. ![]() What a young violinist, a police inspector, a pudgy college student, and her journalist sister will find comprises a companion piece to the mysterious forces swirling around the humans gathered up into David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks. Here, the last Saturday of October, every nine years, a visitor is beckoned in. A narrow alley near the Fox and Hounds pub opens into Slade House. ![]()
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