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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2012
This novel, set in 1850s England, is like an intricate piece of clockwork, and at the center of it is Katharine Tulman, “a clock that [has] lost its key.” The penniless Katharine has been sent by her greedy aunt to Stranwyne Keep on a mission to commit her uncle to a lunatic asylum in order to preserve her cousin’s inheritance. But Katharine discovers that her eccentric (and seemingly autistic) uncle Tulman is a mechanical genius, and th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012 | Older Fiction
Sent by her greedy aunt to commit her uncle to a lunatic asylum, penniless Katharine discovers her eccentric uncle i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More