The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel

The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel

<b>A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of <i>The Lake House</i>--the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day.</b><br /><br /><i>My real name, no one remembers.<br /> The truth about that summer, no one else knows.</i><br /> <br />In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins.<br /> <br />Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.<br /> <br />Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?<br /> <br />Told by multiple voices across time, <i>The Clockmaker's Daughter</i> is a story of murder, mystery, and thievery, of art, love and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river, is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter<i>.</i>