Title: Captives of time
First published: 1987
Description: Orphaned by the brutal murder of their parents, Anne and her gentle but mute brother suffer great hardships as they travel across a dangerous, pestilence-ridden Europe to their uncle, an armorer and clockmaker, and, after his death, to a distant city to deliver the commissioned plans of his precious clock.
Subjects: Clocks and watches, Fiction, Middle Ages, Survival, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, general