num_pages: 318
description: 1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later the mysterious timepiece saves his life drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last he goes in search of its maker Keita Mori a kind lonely immigrant from Japan. Although Mori seems harmless a chain of unexplainable events soon suggests he must be hiding something. When Grace Carrow an Oxford physicist unwittingly interferes Thaniel is torn between opposing loyalties. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is a sweeping atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian London Japan as its civil war crumbles long-standing traditions and beyond. Blending historical events with dazzling flights of fancy it opens doors to a strange and magical past.
language: English
title: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
publisher: Bloomsbury USA