The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A rich spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake Housethe story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadow across generations set in England from the 1860s until the present day. My real name no one remembers. The truth about that summer no one else knows. 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 Radcliffes life is in ruins. 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 artists sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river. 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? Told by multiple voices across time The Clockmakers Daughter 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 clockmakers daughter.