The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton

'I fell deeply in love with books as a child and believe that reading is freedom that to read is to live a thousand lives in one that fiction is a magical conversation between two people - you and me - in which our minds meet across time and space. Kate still feels a pang of longing each time she goes to the theatre and the house lights dim. She has degrees in dramatic art and English literature, and harboured dreams of joining the Royal Shakespeare Company until she realised that it was words she loved more than performing. Kate Morton was born in South Australia, grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland, and now lives with her family in London and Australia. Her seven novels - The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper, The Lake House, The Clockmaker's Daughter, and Homecoming - are published in over 45 countries, in 38 languages, and have all been number one bestsellers around the world. KATE MORTON is an award-winning, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author. Intricately layered and richly atmospheric, it shows that, sometimes, the only way forward is through the past. 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. 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.

A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gun-shot rings out.

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. Adopted by a mysterious stranger, she becomes in turn a thief, a friend, a muse, and a lover. In the depths of a nineteenth-century winter, a little girl is abandoned in the narrow streets of London. The truth about that summer, no one else knows.

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.

The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton