The Clockmaker’s Daughter
Author: Kate Morton
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….Read More
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