The Clockmaker's Daughter A Novel

Kate Morton

eBook - 2018

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the New York Times bestseller Homecoming—"An ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters...Kate Morton at her very best." —Kristin Hannah "An elaborate tapestry...Morton doesn't disappoint." —The Washington Post "Classic English country-house Goth at its finest." —New York PostIn 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 sim...mer 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... more