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The Chimes

by Anna Smaill - £8.99  Hodder & Stoughton General Division (2015)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781444794502 | ISBN 10: 1444794507

A stunning debut composed of memory, music, love and freedom, The Chimes pulls you into a world that will captivate, enthral and inspire.
 
A Bookseller Best Debut of 2015
One to Watch 2015 Huffington Post
An Amazon Rising Star

"The Chimes is a remarkable debut. It's inventive, beautifully written, and completely absorbing. I highly recommend it."
(Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds)
A mind-expanding literary debut composed of memory, music and imagination.
 
A boy stands on the roadside on his way to London, alone in the rain.
 
No memories, beyond what he can hold in his hands at any given moment.
 
No directions, as written words have long since been forbidden.
 
No parents - just a melody that tugs at him, a thread to follow. A song that says if he can just get to the capital, he may find some answers about what happened to them.
 
The world around Simon sings, each movement a pulse of rhythm, each object weaving its own melody, music ringing in every drop of air.
 
Welcome to the world of The Chimes. Here, life is orchestrated by a vast musical instrument that renders people unable to form new memories. The past is a mystery, each new day feels the same as the last, and before is blasphony.
 
But slowly, inexplicably, Simon is beginning to remember. He emerges from sleep each morning with a pricking feeling, and sense there is something he urgently has to do. In the city Simon meets Lucien, who has a gift for hearing, some secrets of his own, and a theory about the danger lurking in Simon's past.
 
A stunning debut composed of memory, music, love and freedom, The Chimes pulls you into a world that will captivate, enthral and inspire.

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