The Clockmaker's Daughter - Couverture souple

Morton, Kate

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144720087X ISBN 13 : 9781447200871

Editeur : Pan Books, 2019

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton brings us her trademark mix of secrets, lies, and intricately layered mysteries in 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 gunshot 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 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kate Morton was born in South Australia and grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland. She has degrees in dramatic art and English literature, specializing in nineteenth-century tragedy and contemporary gothic novels. She is the author of The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper, The Lake House and The Clockmaker's Daughter, which have all been global number one bestsellers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pan Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 144720087X
• ISBN 13: 9781447200871
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 608
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Carp Zoom; commercial@autainpeche.fr; ; 287 impasse de Beaulin; Dissay; La Vienne; 86130; France