The Clockmaker's Daughter
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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 artist’s 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.
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 artist’s 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.
I enjoy Morton's novels. There's always an other-worldly element just below the surface of the real world that affects her characters in some way.
This novel was no exception. It reads like a fairy tale, a love story just out of reach. Some of the paragraphs are like poetry and the characters, although simply drawn, are full of life and feeling.
This novel was no exception. It reads like a fairy tale, a love story just out of reach. Some of the paragraphs are like poetry and the characters, although simply drawn, are full of life and feeling.
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cestmoi
at Fellow Bookcrosser in -- Controlled Releases, by hand or mail, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Saturday, September 23, 2023
cestmoi at Fellow Bookcrosser in -- Controlled Releases, by hand or mail, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Saturday, September 23, 2023
Released 2 mos ago (9/24/2023 UTC) at Fellow Bookcrosser in -- Controlled Releases, by hand or mail, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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