![]() ![]() A zoom link will be emailed to the registrants the morning of the book club meeting. To register, visit the library'sĬalendar of events, choose the event, and click on register. The Library's Biography Book Club meets on the third Monday of the month (except July and August) at 6:30 pm on Zoom. The story then shifts back and forth between Thaniel, an Oxford physics student named Grace, and Japan in the 1870s. ![]() He seeks out the watch’s creator and from there things really get interesting. Six months later, the watch saves his life when Irish nationalists set off a bomb. Then one day he inexplicably receives a strange watch. His money goes to support his sister and her sons in Scotland. ![]() He lives a simple life divided mostly between the telegraph room in the Home Office, his flat, and the pub. The story opens with Thaniel, a telegraphist at the Home Office in Whitehall in 1884, and his Lipton teabag. (Plus, it has really great endpapers.) This is Natasha Pulley’s first book, and it is a mixture of historical fiction and fantasy. And everything on the cover of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street has a connection to the story, which makes it even cooler. I first saw it on the new book display by the circulation desk in the lobby (if you haven’t checked that display out you really should, there are a lot of gems there). ![]() I admit I picked up this book because of the cover. ![]()
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