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The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
I have read and loved everything else Kate Moreton has written and have had this book on pre order for months eagerly waiting for 20 September and release day! I have spent the last week seduced by this beautiful and magical house on a bend in the river in the English countryside. It has felt like a perfect English summer long warm days spent floating in a little boat on the river just lost in this story. This is a long and very cleverly woven together story of the part Birchwood House has played in in the many characters lives down nearly two hundred years. At the heart of the story is the great love affair between Lily and Edward and the mystery of the Radcliffe Blue. Reading this book is like doing a thousand piece jigsaw. I particularly love that bit when you are about two thirds through a jigsaw and the whole thing starts falling into place, the pieces you couldn't make out earlier suddenly make sense - this book is just like that! Story lines that blend together mysteries that become clear. So difficult to write this review without spoilers. It is a very well written and meticulously researched book and I have really loved my week lost in Birchwood Manor with Lily and Lucy, Ada and Tip and Elodie and looking for the Radcliffe Blue. I loved the ending so don't give up on this book. I love gentle sensitive Elodie but what on earth is she doing planning on marrying the invisible Alistair and his controlling mother. Just maybe she will give up her job in the basement and move to the countryside and write this book instead (and no that is not a spoiler)!