The Clockmaker's Daughter is packed with rich historical detail and seductive lyricism . . . An exciting, atmospheric reading treat that moves seamlessly through time and space, and ensures that Morton retains her place in the pantheon of much-loved historical novelists * Lancashire Evening Post * Moving back and forth in time, Morton weaves her disparate stories together involving murder, theft, love and loss, secrets and lies. She's a deft and consummate storyteller * Woman & Home * This is an immersive, beautifully told story which was made to be devoured on a drizzly Sunday afternoon with a round of crumpets and a pot of tea * Red Magazine * A time-travelling tale of lust, deception and lies. Think The Miniaturist meets The Little Stranger, woven together with a contemporary thread . . . It's the perfect spooky autumnal doorstop to (dis)comfort you through the twilight hours * The Pool * When it comes to epic and captivating novels, Kate Morton is up there with the best * Heat * A centuries-spanning epic * Metro * The Clockmaker's Daughter is an ambitious, complex, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters. This is Kate Morton at her very best -- Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of The Nightingale Big houses, dark secrets and ruined lives all play their part in the latest from the best-selling Morton. The perfect book to curl up with as the evenings draw in. * i newspaper * Morton knows how to eke out tantalizing secrets and drama -- Sunday Telegraph (Australia) Morton writes with such page-turning ease, you can easily lose yourself in her world for days * The Pool *

From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton brings us her dazzling sixth novel, The Clockmaker's Daughter. My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins. Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river. Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets? Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river, is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter.