TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pulley,Natasha
TI  - The watchmaker of Filigree Street: a novel 
SN  - 1620408341
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Clock and watch makers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Telegraphers
KW  - Women physicists
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Clairvoyants
KW  - Nobility
KW  - Japan
KW  - Synesthesia
KW  - London (England)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Meiji period, 1868-1912
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Steampunk fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. But he has worse fears than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, which has just received a threat for what could be the largest-scale Fenian bombing in history. When the watch saves Thaniel's life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori--a kind, lonely immigrant who sweeps him into a new world of clockwork and music. Although Mori seems harmless at first, a chain of unexpected events soon proves that he must be hiding something. Meanwhile, Grace Carrow is sneaking into an Oxford library dressed as a man. A theoretical physicist, she is desperate to prove the existence of the luminiferous ether before her mother can force her to marry. As the lives of these three characters become entwined, events spiral out of control until Thaniel is torn between loyalties, futures, and opposing geniuses. Utterly beguiling, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street blends historical events with dazzling flights of fancy to plunge readers into a strange and magical past, where time, destiny, genius--and a clockwork octopus--collide
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