The Clockmaker's Daughter

New York Times Bestseller. A captivating novel by the author of The Lake House, a story of love and a mysterious murder that spans generations, set in England from 1860 to the present day. My real name? No one remembers it. The events of that summer? No one else knows them. In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists, led by the passionate and brilliant Edward Radcliffe, travels to Birchwood Manor, a country house in Berkshire. Their plan: to spend the following months secluded and let their inspiration and creativity flow. However, as the summer comes to an end, a woman has been shot dead, another has disappeared, a priceless jewel is missing, and Edward Radcliffe's life has fallen apart. Over a hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist from London, discovers a leather wallet containing two seemingly unrelated objects: a sepia photograph of a beautiful woman in a Victorian dress and an artist's sketchbook with a drawing of a two-gabled house by a river bend. Why does that sketch of Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the gorgeous woman in the photograph? Will she ever reveal her secrets? Narrated by multiple voices over time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a tale of murder, mystery, and theft, a reflection on art, truth, beauty, love, and loss. Flowing through its pages like a river is the voice of a woman free from the constraints of time, whose name has been forgotten: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter.

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