David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks is available on Audible as a 24 hrs 30 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by Jessica Ball and Leon Williams and Colin Mace and Steven Crossley and Laurel Lefkow and Anna Bentinck.
Publisher’s Summary
David Mitchell is an eloquent conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit – it is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable.
Following a scalding row with her mother, 15-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 19th-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. Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Jessica Ball and Leon Williams and Colin Mace and Steven Crossley and Laurel Lefkow and Anna Bentinck
- Length: 24 hrs 30 mins
- Publisher: Recorded Books
- Release year: 2014
- Audible category: Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Literary Fiction
Listener Ratings
The Bone Clocks holds an average listener rating of 4.2/5 from 4125 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.5/5
- Story: 4.1/5
- 5-star ratings: 48% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “What a wonderful surprise”
I have liked David Mitchell’s books in the past, well I think I’ve only read 2, and his writing is gorgeous. But at times I found them a bit long and overwritten with too many characters, characters I didn’t really care about. This book was nothing like those. completely different storyline than his past novels. I was wonderfully and unexpectedly surprised. I felt it was also somewhat reminiscent of Haruki Murakami. I’d recommend it to someone who enjoys the strangeness and feral quality of his stories. <br/><br/>Also, as an oncology nurse, I do love the idea of referring to humans as "bone clocks ". As sad as that might seem, it’s completely spot on.— NJ, Audible listener
3/5 stars — “Felt unsure what it wanted to be”
This book is part fantasy, part family drama, part cli-fi. I felt like it never committed to one genre. This was surely purposeful, but it felt wishy washy. The story spans time and characters, but I never got the payoff that I was hoping for.— Chad Encinas, Audible listener
3/5 stars — “Must have patience”
The book is good, but never really becomes exciting. Also, the reader for Crispin Hershey’s section was awful at doing other’s voices, making characters you have already me sound ridiculous and out of character.— Ben Stubbs, Audible listener
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