La hija del relojero

One of contemporary literature's greatest authors returns.

My real name? No one remembers it.
The events of that summer? No one else knows them.

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists, led by the passionate and brilliant Edward Radcliffe, travel to Birchwood Manor, a country house in Berkshire. They have a plan: to spend the next few months in seclusion, letting their inspiration and creativity flow. However, as summer draws to a close, one woman has been shot dead and another has disappeared, a priceless jewel has gone missing, and Edward Radcliffe's life has fallen apart.

About a hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, discovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated objects: a sepia photograph of a beautiful woman in a Victorian dress and an artist's sketchbook with a drawing of a two-gabled house in the bend of a river.

Why does that sketch of Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will it ever reveal its secrets to her?

Narrated by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is the story of a murder, a mystery, and a theft, a reflection on art, truth, and beauty, love and loss. Through its pages flows like a river the voice of a woman already free from the constraints of time and whose name has been forgotten: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter, the only person who saw everything that happened.

Critics have said of Kate Morton:
«Memories, intrigue, and family secrets interwoven into an absorbing labyrinth of complementary plots that draw us into a reading full of strength, tenderness, and emotion. With an agile and enveloping style, Kate Morton moves us with a magnificent story difficult to forget.»
María Dueñas

«A hypnotic, mysterious, and beautifully written story that connects two eras separated by more than 150 years as only Kate Morton knows how to do.»
Javier Castillo

«Kate Morton masterfully demonstrates the wonderful timelessness of time.»
Macarena Berlín

«Once again, Kate Morton imbues her female characters with a unique voice and extraordinary strength.»
Sandra Barneda

«Morton attracts by the way she weaves scenes in her novels to build a precious, intimate tapestry, full of chiaroscuro and subtle mysteries into which you fall without possible resistance.»
El País

«There are those who know how to build the past as their greatest treasure, as a bottomless well of inexhaustible wealth in the form of stories and secrets, of adventures, romances, misfortune, crimes, and passions... of experiences that indelibly mark their protagonists and survive both the passage of calendar pages and generational changes [...] And this race through time has in Kate Morton one of its greatest - and best - sprinters.»
El Mundo.

«Without a doubt, this Australian is the writer of the moment.»
El Cultural

«History, mystery, and memory [...] remains true to her formula, a novel in which past and present, both with an English accent, intertwine with mystery to inevitably captivate the reader.»
ABC