A review by misshappyapples
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton

5.0

I really really loved this. I really love Kate Morton and I can’t even think of the book of hers that I don’t love completely but this one really did it for me. It has all the elements of Morton’s usual fair - mysteries of the past being uncovered by women of the future working through their own stuff, wonderfully drawn scenery (and HOUSES, which are a grand passion of my own), and totally convincing historical settings. But this had so many more elements that were plain old perfect for me. For one, there were ghosts. Which is perfectly lovely any time of year but even better when you finish this one the 28th of October. Also there was the theme of moving through time in the same location - many occupants of the same house. A Victorian mystery. Pre-Ralphaelite painters. The lonely, somewhat sickly rich kid trope. Pickpockets. People being evacuated from WWII London... this had it all. I feel like I am just fangirling about this book. I don’t know, maybe I can’t be objective about Kate Morton, but I really thought this was almost perfect.