Her story grabs hold from its first pages to the complex but realistic page-turner ending. The novel would have worked better had it not strayed away from Nell. Ellie’s forced romance distracts, as do a few too many information dumps. Ellie approaches most everything half-heartedly, including her search about Nell. Ellie’s modern-day life does not hold up its part. She is feisty, smart, and maintains a sense of humor in the worst times. Newfane, VT 05345 Telephone 8 Mobile 6 Open only by appointment. Nell’s striving to save Arthur and thwart sabotage become heroic. On the clock with Ray Bates By Kirk Kardashian 12.26.07 The British Clockmaker P.O. The wartime scenes and details, down to how Big Ben is kept running, are riveting. Did someone set him up? Is he a closet Nazi? Nell’s frantic search and Ellie’s present-day reconstruction reveal Nell’s harrowing quest and the cause of her sudden death. While navigating around craters and dodging air bombardment, she must figure out why Arthur has lost his freedom. England’s secret service arrests and jails Arthur. as a young woman, fully succumbs to dementia.įascists lurk in WWII England and plot to destroy one of her grand edifices-Big Ben. She flies to England to find out more before her mother, who emigrated to the U.S.
Ellie knows Nell died suddenly and too young at the start of WWII but little else. Thirty-eight-year-old Ellie (Alice’s daughter and Nell’s granddaughter) finds a treasure that belonged to Grandmother Nell. To get from the workshop to a room where repaired clocks are tested requires walking through the kitchen and turning right through the laundry room. For 50 years, Bates’ antique clock repair business has been located in his home in Newfane. The second storyline begins in the present in New York. For Ray Bates, family life and work as a Master Clockmaker take place under the same roof. Arthur, an expert clockmaker, must stay in London to keep Big Ben chiming. After losing their apartment home to a Nazi air raid, Arthur sends Nell and Alice to Nell’s family in the safer countryside. This dual-timeline novel begins in 1939-40 with London newlyweds Arthur and Eleanor (“Nell”) Spelman and their baby Alice.
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