It's time to start getting excited,Love Nonetheless David Mitchell fans -- a new novel is on well on its way.
SEE ALSO: 'Bone Clocks' Author David Mitchell Talks Literary Fiction and 'Game of Thrones'The Cloud Atlasauthor dropped some hints about the story during a Facebook Live interview with Mashableon Thursday, while promoting his new book Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A young man's voice from the silence of autism -- a translation of a book by the Japanese author Naoki Higashida which acts as a follow-up to his earlier work The Reason I Jump.
You can watch the full interview below (jump to 24:50 for the question about Mitchell's new book):
"I was just speaking with my editor about this very question," says Mitchell, responding to a question about when we'll see a new novel. "By hook or by crook, by the end of 2019. "I've said that now on a very public forum and I can't take it back!"
We then followed up with a question about what the story might involve -- and although Mitchell couldn't give too much away, he did drop a few hints.
"Some enigmatic clues... music... a chunk in the late 1960s... it will be a part of the greater universe, however, as well," he says.
And as for returning characters? "Could well be," says Mitchell.
Watch this space...
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