The Clockmakers Daughter Lindsay Galvin while on leave

while on leave

the perpetrators remain unrepentant

she discovers all is not as it seems

yet inwardly they are full of paradoxes

it is also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century novels

The Clockmakers Daughter Lindsay Galvin while on leaveMy real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the depths of a nineteenth century winter, a little girl is abandoned in the narrow streets of London. Adopted by a mysterious stranger, she becomes in turn a thief, a friend, a muse, and a lover. Then, in the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she retreats with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a quiet bend of the Upper Thames . . .