The Clockmaker's Daughter Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Kate Morton
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
542

The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton Book Summary

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In the depths of a 19th-century winter, a little girl is abandoned on the streets of Victorian London. She grows up to become in turn a thief, an artist’s muse, and a lover. In the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she travels with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a bend of the Upper Thames. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. It is not until over a century later, when another young woman is drawn to Birchwood Manor, that its secrets are finally revealed.

Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.

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Book Name The Clockmaker's Daughter
Genre Literary
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 10.57 MB

The Clockmaker's Daughter (Kate Morton) Book Reviews 2024

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The Clockmaker’s Daughter. I’ve loved all of Kate Morton’s books, except this one. I’m forcing myself to read the last few chapters. I regret buying this book!

Good but takes some work to follow. This was a difficult book to get “into” - so many time changes and characters that seemed completely independent. I kept with it and when I read the statement by Birdie about jumbled jigsaw pieces from countless puzzles collected over time, I realized that this described the book. The addition of the Chronology of Birchwood Manor at the end of the book finally helped me connect some of the “puzzle” pieces. Not all was resolved at the end of the book, but that was okay - I am happy to make my own ending or … perhaps, there will be a sequel.

Not my first choice. I had a tough time following this plot line

The Clockmaker's Daughter. I so enjoy all of Kate's books - the mystery, the going back and forth in time keep the story interesting. We just moved to a new house (named Thornbury Manor) and it made me ponder the people who lived here before me - even before this house was built. I am looking forward to her next novel.

The clockmakers daughter. Kate Morton has done it again and I’m not particularly fond of types of ghost stories or supernatural but she has a way of telling her. I’ll stay in her loop til her next book comes out.

Couldn’t finish this. I have read several other books by Kate Morton and enjoyed them all. I couldn’t get past the first 100 pages on this one before I had to quit. Too confusing. Couldn’t remember all the names. Just couldn’t do it.

The clockmakers dsughter. I have read many of Kate Morton’s novels and was so looking forward to this one...I even preordered it. I was sorely disappointed! The plot jumped around too much and the story line just did not hang together. Also the character development left much to be desired.

The Clockmaker’s Daughter. A fascinating read with a very unsatisfactory ending. Too many loose ends and unanswered questions. I read the last page, expecting a conclusion in the next chapter but there wasn’t a next chapter. It’s like the author couldn’t think of a way to end the story.

An amazing and beautifully told story. Once I found myself past chapter 2, it was very difficult to do anything else but read, read, and read some more. So many stories elaborately intertwined, like tracing a rose vine back to the original stalk only to be distracted by yet another pretty flower along the way. This book is full of deep meaning, often forcing moments of personal introspection. It the type of story that lives with you long after you’ve put it down. I loved the character development, the descriptive setting of Birchwood Manor and the back-and-forth sway of jumping from one generation’s era to another and learning how they all tied together. If you didn’t believe in ghosts before, you might after reading this book.

The Clockmaker’s Daughter. I was disappointed in this book as I really liked her earlier works. It skips backwards and forwards in time and can get confusing trying to keep up with the characters and interwoven plot. I also thought it ended abruptly and left several assumptions hanging.

SO DISAPPOINTING!! AVOID THIS!. Oh my gosh, this was so hard to get through! It was about 100 pages too long. I found the story idea interesting and usually enjoy reading books by this author. However, this book went on and on full of "fluff" and circling around avoiding getting to the point. So many unimportant side trips. I literally was able to skip pages & still felt like it was droning on & I hadn't missed a thing of importance. And then the ending was so anticlimactic & abrupt after all the circling around to get there I was left feeling disappointed and annoyed. This was not her best story at all. I'd wait and check it out from the library if you feel you must read it. Perhaps this fulfilled something for the author, but honestly, I felt like it was a book written to satisfy a contract.

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ingricate and detailed. THE CLOCKMAKER’S DAUGHTER by Kate Morton is a story of love, romance, murder and mystery spanning one-hundred and fifty years, numerous timelines, several generations and various perspectives all connected to Birchwood Manor on the Upper Thames. One-hundred and fifty years earlier artist and painter Edward Radcliffe fell in love with his muse, a woman everyone came to know as Lily Millington, a woman who wasn’t whom she purported to be. The purchase of a country estate known as Birchwood Manor would bring together Edward and his fellow artists –the Magenta Brotherhood- wherein their lives would about to change forever. A murder, the presumed departure and guilt of Lily Millington, and the disappearance of the Radcliffe Blue Diamond would kick-off a century and a half of rumors, innuendo, heartbreak and loss that followed one family from 1862 to 2017. In 2017, Archivist Elodie Winslow went in search of her past, a past mired in secrets and death, but a past that Elodie was desperate to discover. With only a damaged photo, an old leather satchel, and stories of a time long ago, Elodie heads to Birchwood Manor to unearth the true about her mother’s life but Elodie isn’t the only one in search of the past as Birchwood Manor’s secrets are about to be exposed. THE CLOCKMAKER’S DAUGHTER is a slow building story line that follows several paths, and numerous timelines; of one family’s history of secrets and lies; and the spirit who is witness to everything and all. THE CLOCKMAKER’S DAUGHTER is a story of ghosts, fairies and queens; of betrayal, loss, heartbreak and love as one family meanders a path between the present and the past. Kate Morton weaves an intricate and detailed story that at times is difficult to navigate as the perspectives and timelines invariably overlap between the present and several pasts. An intriguing story, THE CLOCKMAKER’S DAUGHTER is a beautiful tale that will captivate and entertain; challenge and inflame.

Truly Amazing Story!. This is the first book in a long time that I absolutely could not put down! Wonderfully and intelligently woven tale that captured my interest from page 1. I will definitely be reading more of Kate Morton.

The Clockmaker’s Daughter. This story kept you wanting to read more. It did seem to move around a lot between many characters but in the end it all came together. This was a great read!

The Clockmakers Daughter. I usually love Kate Morton’s novels this was not the case with the ClockMakers Daughter . Too many characters, jumping back and forth between many stories left me confused and exhausted trying to sort out who was who. Sentences too wordy and I just plain lost interest in this book.

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