02652cam a2200493 i 4500 517049828 TxAuBib 20191120120000.0 190618s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019299452 9781620408339 $26.00 1620408333 $26.00 TxAuBib rda Pulley, Natasha. The watchmaker of Filigree Street / Natasha Pulley. First U.S. edition. New York : Bloomsbury, 2015. ©2015. 318 p. ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "First published in Great Britain 2015.". In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. But he has worse fears than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, which has just received a threat for what could be the largest-scale Fenian bombing in history. When the watch saves Thaniel's life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori--a kind, lonely immigrant who sweeps him into a new world of clockwork and music. Although Mori seems harmless at first, a chain of unexpected events soon proves that he must be hiding something. Meanwhile, Grace Carrow is sneaking into an Oxford library dressed as a man. A theoretical physicist, she is desperate to prove the existence of the luminiferous ether before her mother can force her to marry. As the lives of these three characters become entwined, events spiral out of control until Thaniel is torn between loyalties, futures, and opposing geniuses. Utterly beguiling, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street blends historical events with dazzling flights of fancy to plunge readers into a strange and magical past, where time, destiny, genius--and a clockwork octopus--collide. 20191120. Clock and watch makers Fiction. Clock and watch makers. Telegraphers Fiction. Telegraphers. Women physicists Fiction. Women physicists. Women immigrants Great Britain Fiction. Women immigrants. Women immigrants. Fiction. History. London (England) History 19th century Fiction. England London. Great Britain. Steampunk fiction. Fantasy. Historical fiction. Bloomsbury. BTCLS