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What a story! There were times when I felt I was wandering along Jacko's labyrinth totally blind and simply trusting that I remembered the path. I think that is just what David Mitchell wanted for his reader
...to take us to a part of our world we could barely fathom and could really only briefly grasp. And at the center of all that unknown is Holly Sykes the girl/woman/old lady whose heart is filled with a no-nonsense love that gathers people towards her.
That doesn't sound as enticing as this book actually is. This story spans Holly's life- from her running away from her pub home as a 15 yr old to the final moment on the shores of
Sheep's Head island watching her cherished family float away on a small boat, Through a series of 'chance' meetings Holly has brushed against an ancient evil built on a blind shaman's desire for immorality. This immortality is taken from the bone clocks (humans) they brush against. Holly becomes an integral key to an opposing force.
I truly loved this book! I loved the impossible symmetry of this story...a world spinning along beside Nd underneath and all around without us even knowing!
One of my very favorites!'
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