Deborah’s Reviews > The Bone Clocks > Status Update

While I initially resisted the inclusion of EB's detailed scenes of his working in Iraq - by the end of this section I realized the effect of juxtaposing this with the petty intergenerational and individual dramas of middle-class British family life. Then the focal drama of having your own child go missing in an unfamiliar place paralleling the immediacy of the unknowns in a foreign war zone, became sensible.

I'm NOT appreciating the writing about Iraq. Need to be patient and discover what there is to it that intrinsically links it to the rest of the book - or is it just the author's going on about something contemporary upon which he cares to comment? A la "Cloud Atlas" he may have some hobbyhorse here.

Again completed a section in one long sitting and went on to start the next, because these are engaging characters and a plot that leads you ahead. I was abashed to rediscover at the start of the third section, a major character (E.B.) whose name I'd evidently forgotten when it appeared in the second.