It then works backwards, so that you reach the end via all the previous stories so you end up with 12 chapters all told. Six stories in oneįor those of you who haven’t read Cloud Atlas, it’s essentially six novellas following the lives of six characters (all vaguely related or linked to one another in some way) and moves forward in time so that pretty much the whole scope of human history is covered, from the 19th century to some post-apocalyptic future we are yet to reach. When I finally worked up the courage to read it, I have to be brutally honest and say I could not work out what all the fuss was about. It has been lauded by so many people I was almost too scared to read it, which is why it languished in my ever-growing to-be-read pile for more than three years. Out of all the recommendations I have received from fellow book bloggers over the past few years, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas gets mentioned more than any other book. Fiction – paperback Sceptre 544 pages 2005.
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