The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
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Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Paperback
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It's an usually distinctive and finely crafted timepiece that suddenly appears to Thaniel, a local clerk, who assumes a friend left it for him. Â When the watch alerts him to a bomb about to go off it saves his life. Â Is the watch a creation of an Irish terrorist group? Â Unlikely. The maker is Keita Mori, a Japanese clockmaker who makes moving mechanicals such as birds, an octopus and more. Â Mori is a genius with creations, kind and calm and soon rents a room to Thaniel. The two become friends.Â
The cast grows with the plot. Meet Grace Carrow, an Oxford-trained physicist with a mathematical soul who is intent on unraveling the mechanics of the watch, an orphan girl named Six, Whitehall civil servants, a Japanese dandy, and others.
Easy to read, the story flows seamlessly from one incident to another and one character to another.  Who is the bomber?  I couldn't guess until the author's reveal. All in all, I quite enjoyed this entertaining book.
The cast grows with the plot. Meet Grace Carrow, an Oxford-trained physicist with a mathematical soul who is intent on unraveling the mechanics of the watch, an orphan girl named Six, Whitehall civil servants, a Japanese dandy, and others.
Easy to read, the story flows seamlessly from one incident to another and one character to another.  Who is the bomber?  I couldn't guess until the author's reveal. All in all, I quite enjoyed this entertaining book.
