num_pages: 291
description: The Chimes is set in a reimagined London in a world where people cannot form new memories and the written word has been forbidden and destroyed.In the absence of both memory and writing is music.In a world where the past is a mystery each new day feels the same as the last and before is blasphemy all appears lost. But Simon Wythern a young man who arrives in London seeking the truth about what really happened to his parents discovers he has a gift that could change all of this forever.A stunning literary debut by poet and violinist Anna Smaill The Chimes is a startlingly original work that combines beautiful inventive prose with incredible imagination.
language: English
title: The Chimes
publisher: Sceptre