The Bone Clocks

After a heated argument with her mother, Holly Sykes, then fifteen, closes the door on her previous existence. Holly, however, is not your ordinary teenage runaway—a sensitive girl who was once approached by voices she only knew as "the radio people," Holly is a magnet for paranormal activity. Now, as she travels further into the English countryside, coincidences and visions rearrange her reality to the point that it seems like a nightmare come true.

Because Holly has drawn the attention of a group of deadly mystics as well as those who oppose them. However, her lost weekend is just the beginning of an unexpected absence that permanently damages her family. Every decade of Holly's life will be plagued by this unanswered mystery, which will have an impact on everyone she loves—including those who are not yet born.

This bizarre, unseen battle on the periphery of our world involves a number of characters, including a middle-aged writer lamenting his expulsion from the bestseller list, a troubled father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied Iraq, and a Cambridge scholarship lad preparing himself for money and prominence. Their tales come together in moments of ordinary elegance and astounding astonishment, from the Swiss Alps of the Middle Ages to the Australian outback of the 19th century, from a hotel in Shanghai to a townhouse in Manhattan in the not-too-distant future.