The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell (Get this book)
Is The Bone Clocks the most ambitious novel ever written, or just the most Mitchell-esque? We begin in the punk years with a teenage Talking Heads obsessed runaway from Gravesend, England, named Holly Sykes. She becomes a pawn in a spiritual war between the mysterious "Radio People" and the benevolent Horologists, led by the body-shifting immortal Marinus. Many more characters and places soon find themselves worked into Marinus's "Script" across the book's six sections. With its wayward thoughts, chance meetings, and attention to detail, Mitchell's novel is a thing of beauty.--Publisher's Weekly