![]() ![]() Holly runs away, taking her prized vinyl copy of “Fear of Music” with her, but her grand exit soon finds her far from home and at extremely loose ends. Fifteen-year-old Holly believes she’s in love with a smooth-talking Talking Heads aficionado in his 20s, and when Mam forbids her to see Vinny again, both women respond with actions and words that will sting for a lifetime. The new novel opens in the pro-Thatcher England of 1984, with a ferocious fight between Holly Sykes and her exhausted, exasperated mother. After the sojourns he took through the coming-of-age story with “Black Swan Green,” and into historical fiction with “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,” the chameleonic Mitchell returns to the head-trippy, time-jumping, genre-busting, fantastical/science fictional ways of “Cloud Atlas” with “The Bone Clocks.” publication dates, its eager audience teased with a related short story published via Twitter, David Mitchell’s new novel arrives amid high anticipation, and deservedly so. ![]() Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize even before its British and U.S. ![]()
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