The watchmaker of Filigree Street

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The work The watchmaker of Filigree Street represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The watchmaker of Filigree Street

Statement of responsibility

Natasha Pulley

Creator

• Pulley, Natasha

Author

• Pulley, Natasha

Subject

• England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Physicists -- Fiction
• Telegraphers -- Fiction
• Terrorism -- Fiction
• Women immigrants -- Great Britain -- Fiction
• Women physicists -- Fiction
• Bombings -- Fiction
• Clock and watch makers -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. But he has worse fears than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, which has just received a threat for what could be the largest-scale Fenian bombing in history. When the watch saves Thaniel's life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori - a kind, lonely immigrant who sweeps him into a new world of clockwork and music. Although Mori seems harmless at first, a chain of unexpected slips soon proves that he must be hiding something. Meanwhile, Grace Carrow is sneaking into an Oxford library dressed as a man. A theoretical physicist, she is desperate to prove the existence of the luminiferous ether before her mother can force her to marry. As the lives of these three characters become entwined, events spiral out of control until Thaniel is torn between loyalties, futures and opposing geniuses. Utterly beguiling, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street blends historical events with dazzling flights of fancy to plunge readers into a strange and magical past, where time, destiny, genius - and a clockwork octopus - collide

Member of

• Watchmaker, 01

Cataloging source

QRML

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Watchmaker

Series volume

01