When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work. In an act of compassion her manager at London's Swinburne Museum gives her a very particular project: a box of intricate clockwork parts that constitute a nineteenth-century automaton, a beautiful mechanical bird. It's an object made of equal parts magic, love, madness and science, a delight that contains the seeds of our age's downfall. Once Catherine discovers the diary of the man who commissioned it, one obsession merges into another.
| ISBN: | 9781742534527 |
| Publication date: | 25th January 2012 |
| Author: | Carey, Peter |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |