There are passing references to Zedelghem, the Belgian estate that features in one of Cloud Atlas’s interlocked stories, and an appearance by the sister of Jonny Penhaligon, an aristocratic student gambler who commits suicide in The Bone Clocks. Mitchell is famous for his intertextual tricks, and plenty dot these pages.
But while its setting is changed from last year’s Man Booker-longlisted The Bone Clocks - a nondescript, unnamed southern English town - Slade House is set firmly in the same metanarrative: the cosmic struggle between the soul-stealing Atemporals of the Shaded Way and their deadly rivals, the time-travelling Horologists battling to save humanity.
New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĭavid Mitchell’s new novella grew from a short story written on Twitter in 2014.
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