02231cam a2200337 i 4500 361041077 TxAuBib 20181025120000.0 180227s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018008381 9781451649390 1451649398 (OCoLC)1027732444 TxAuBib rda Morton, Kate, (Morton, Kate.) The clockmaker's daughter : a novel / Kate Morton. First Atria books hardcover edition. New York, NY : Atria Books, 2018. 485 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 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. 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 Clockmaker's 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 clockmaker's daughter."-- Book jacket. 20181025. Artists Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Murder Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Historical fiction. Romance fiction.