Daughter of the clockwork master
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The slums of the Victorian London is not the most suitable place for the young person who lost his parents. However, the life of a street thief, it seemed, prepared for her fate, changes steeply after a meeting with the artist Richard Radcliffe. Lilly Millington - as she calls herself - becomes his model and muse. Together with a company of friends, lovers find themselves in an old mansion on the shore of the Thames, where they carelessly spend the summer of 1862, until their idyllic existence collapses overnight as a result of a disaster that led to the death of one woman and the disappearance of another ... more than a hundred and fifty years will pass before by chance there is accidentally An old album was found with the sketches of the artist and an unknown photo portrait - and the light of the truth will finally shed to the events of the past, buried in the failures of the time. In his book, Kate Morton, the author of international bestsellers, including the novels “When the Fog is dissipated”, “Distant clock”, “Forgotten Garden”, etc., writes about art and love, grave losses and repentance, about time and eternity, and It is also that the only way to the future sometimes lies through the past.
For the first time in Russian!
For the first time in Russian!
Author:
Author:Кейт Мортон
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:newspaper
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-389-16882-4
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