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mascha_blue 's review for:
The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
This was quite a long read that spanned the years 1862 to 2017. The story revolved around a 16th century house on the Thames River somewhere near a country town. A large number of characters trooped through the house through those years.
There was a ghost, an artist, his sister, an archeologist, a shell-shocked WWI veteran, a family who escaped London bombings during WWII, some guy named Jack, the archeologist's granddaughter, and a young woman about to be married who was finding out some hard truths about her parents. And then there were the minor characters.
The language was beautiful and the stories around the characters were usually interesting. However, they just ended up dragging the story down and muddling the big reveal at the end. Not a bad novel but not compelling, either.
There was a ghost, an artist, his sister, an archeologist, a shell-shocked WWI veteran, a family who escaped London bombings during WWII, some guy named Jack, the archeologist's granddaughter, and a young woman about to be married who was finding out some hard truths about her parents. And then there were the minor characters.
The language was beautiful and the stories around the characters were usually interesting. However, they just ended up dragging the story down and muddling the big reveal at the end. Not a bad novel but not compelling, either.