The Clockwork Girl

A intoxicating and darkly immersive story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom, from the award-winning author of The Unseeing Paris, 1750. In the midst of winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, a new maid arrives at the home of a celebrated clockmaker and his clever, unworldly daughter. But rumours are stirring that Reinhart''s uncanny mechanical creations - bejewelled birds, silver spiders - are more than mere automata. That they might defy the laws of nature, perhaps even at the expense of the living... But Madeleine is hiding a dark past, and a dangerous purpose - to discover the truth of the clockmaker''s experiments and record his every move, in exchange for her own chance of freedom. Meanwhile, in the streets, children are quietly disappearing - and Madeleine comes to fear that she has stumbled upon a greater conspiracy. One which might reach to the heart of Versailles...

Product details

• Authors: Anna Mazzola, Mazzola Anna
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.01.2023
• EAN: 9781398703803
• ISBN: 978-1-398-70380-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Historical adventure, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Clocks & Watches, Historical adventure fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary