The Clockmaker's Daughter
Paperback | 496 pages
INSTANTĀ NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLER
āAn ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of charactersā¦Kate Morton at her very best.ā āKristin Hannah
āAn elaborate tapestryā¦Morton doesnāt disappoint.āĀ āTheĀ Washington Post
"Classic English country-house Goth at its finest."Ā āNew York Post
In the depths of a 19th-century winter, a little girl is abandoned on the streets of Victorian London. She grows up to become in turn a thief, an artistās muse, and a lover. In the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she travels with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a bend of the Upper Thames. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. It is not until over a century later, when another young woman is drawn to Birchwood Manor, that its secrets are finally revealed.
Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.
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Paperback | 496 pages
INSTANTĀ NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLER
āAn ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of charactersā¦Kate Morton at her very best.ā āKristin Hannah
āAn elaborate tapestryā¦Morton doesnāt disappoint.āĀ āTheĀ Washington Post
"Classic English country-house Goth at its finest."Ā āNew York Post
In the depths of a 19th-century winter, a little girl is abandoned on the streets of Victorian London. She grows up to become in turn a thief, an artistās muse, and a lover. In the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she travels with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a bend of the Upper Thames. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. It is not until over a century later, when another young woman is drawn to Birchwood Manor, that its secrets are finally revealed.
Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.
