02098cam a2200337 i 4500 1164412951 TxAuBib 20150728120000.0 140825s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781620408339 1620408333 (OCoLC)889164505 YDXCP eng rda YDXCP BTCTA BDX OCLCQ DYJ TNH Z0P OCLCO CDX IEB FOLLT OCLCO TxAuBib rda Pulley, Natasha, author. The watchmaker of Filigree Street / Natasha Pulley. First U.S. edition. New York : Bloomsbury, 2015. 318 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20150728. Clock and watch makers Fiction. Telegraphers Fiction. Women physicists Fiction. Women immigrants Great Britain Fiction. London (England) History 19th century Fiction. Fantasy fiction. TXKIP