![]() ![]() There's an embryonic Oxbridge novel that sees precocious, amoral Hugo Lamb describe his predatory life as a Cambridge undergraduate. ![]() ![]() In between, Mitchell ranges between styles and genres with his usual promiscuity. In the final part, set some 60 years later, an elderly Holly hunkers down on Ireland's west coast as the world lurches towards environmental apocalypse and the global socio-economic order disintegrates. In the first section, set in 1984, 15-year-old Holly goes on the lam in Gravesend, Kent, after falling out with her parents and discovering that her boyfriend is cheating on her. Two sections – the first and last – are narrated by Holly herself the others by figures who at various points come into contact with her. It is composed of six parts, each of which deals with a different chapter in the life of Holly Sykes, a teenage runaway who grows up to become a successful memoirist. E ven by its author's impressive standards, David Mitchell's Booker-longlisted sixth novel is recklessly ambitious. ![]()
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