A brand new novel from the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of }Cloud Atlas{ and }The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet{. Beginning in 1984, it follows the life of teenage runaway Holly Sykes from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast as Europe's oil supply dries up. A metaphysical thriller, with flashes of precognition and brief lapses in the laws of reality. 'No other British novelist, to my mind, combines such a darkly futuristic intelligence with such polyphonic ease.' Robert Macfarlane, }The Sunday Times{