![]() Thaniel narrowly escapes one explosion because of an ear-piercing alarm from an exquisitely-made gold pocket watch that had been left on his bed during a break-in at his lodgings.Ĭuriosity about the watch leads Thaniel to the medieval buildings of Filigree Street and the mysterious Keito Mori, a high-born Japanese expatriate and mechanical genius The two become friends though Thaniel has a nagging feeling that Mori is somehow connected to the bombings. ![]() They succeed in destroying Victoria railway station and part of Scotland Yard. This is a time of political unrest as an Irish republican movement embark on a bombing campaign targeting public buildings in the capital. The pair are drawn together by their encounters with the enigmatic figure of a master watchmaker who is able to predict the future. ![]() In Oxford, Grace Carrow, the daughter of a titled family is studying physics at one of the city’s new colleges for women. Natasha Pulley’s debut novel is set primarily in 1880s London (with an occasional diversion to Japan), where Nathaniel Steepleton is a lowly telegraph clerk at the Home Office. ![]()
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