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The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
2.0

A detailed account filled with, mostly, interesting characters that portray absolutely nothing. Just a bunch of gits faffing around finding something to do... I think they're called Victorians or something, and it's supposed to be 'beautiful' and 'true.' Someone dies a long time ago, and somehow this modern day girl tries to piece it together because...plot, I guess?

Anyway, the author pretty much sums it up in her notes saying something about trying to tell a coherent story with a disjointed timeline. But I think she messed up, because I'm pretty sure it's more accurate to say she told a disjointed story with a coherent timeline.

Lastly, I pretty much gritted my way through this so maybe I just didn't care enough to really understand all that truth and beauty.