num_pages: 288
description: Watchmaker Robert Garret's wife has died from a slow disease which destroyed the mind he loved before it destroyed her body. Now he will honour her by constructing a fitting memorial: a perfectly accurate timepiece. Can such a device ever exist?
language: English
title: The Horizontal Instrument
titlecomplete: The Horizontal Instrument
genres: Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 55
publisher: Corgi