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Kate Morton - Clockmaker's Daughter, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Clockmaker's Daughter

Av Kate Morton

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Beskrivning
From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton brings us her trademark mix of secrets, lies, and intricately layered mysteries in her sixth novel, The Clockmaker's Daughter.My real name, no one remembers.The truth about that summer, no one else knows.In the depths of a nineteenth-century winter, a little girl is abandoned in the narrow streets of London. Adopted by a mysterious stranger, she becomes in turn a thief, a friend, a muse, and a lover. Then, in the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she retreats with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a quiet bend of the Upper Thames . . . Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gun-shot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time.Over the next century and beyond, Birchwood Manor welcomes many newcomers but guards its secret closely - until another young woman is drawn to visit the house because of a family secret of her own . . .As the mystery of The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton begins to unravel, we discover the stories of those who have passed through Birchwood Manor since that fateful day in 1862. Intricately layered and richly atmospheric, it shows that, sometimes, the only way forward is through the past.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-09-20
  • Mått: 154 x 233 x 45 mm
  • Vikt: 768 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 592
  • Förlag: Pan Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9781509848218
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Kate Morton grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland and now lives with her family in London. She has degrees in dramatic art and English literature, specializing in nineteenth-century tragedy and contemporary gothic novels. Kate has sold over 10 million copies of her novels in thirty-two languages, across thirty-nine countries. The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper and The Lake House have all been number one bestsellers around the world. The Clockmaker's Daughter is her sixth novel.

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Morton writes with such page-turning ease, you can easily lose yourself in her world for days

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3 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.7/5

  1. 4/5 Rockdoc

    I enjoy historical fiction and Kate Morton's best selling novel jumps between 2017 and 1862 with stops in 1901, 1928, 1940, 1962.
    In the book, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a mid 19th Century orphan handed over to Mrs Mack who schools her in petty crime. She is discovered by a budding artist, becomes his muse and mysteriously disappears at the same time as the artist's family heirloom vanishes. Naturally, she is accused of stealing it and escaping to America.
    The whole story evolves in 2017 when an archivist finds a satchel with a mysterious photo and a sketch book that leads her to a twin-gabled house with eight chimneys and the spectre that lives there.
    It is a convoluted story and I had to read it through twice to be able to follow all the threads (and I needed to draw family trees of several of the main characters to place them.)
    The story of discovery of lost documents leading to a hunt for their origins, uncovering a love story reminded me of another of my favourite books which has a strikingly similar plot (though without the spectre): A.S. Byatt's "Possession".
    Read Byatt's first and the The Clockmaker's Daughter.

  2. 5/5 Anne M
  3. 5/5 Kristina C

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