The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley
Brand: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Product Description
Natasha Pulleys Watchmaker of Filigree Street captivated readers with its charming blend of historical fiction fantasy and steampunk. Now Pulley revisits her beloved characters in a sequel that sweeps readers off to Japan in the 1880s where nationalism is on the rise and ghosts roam the streets. 1888. Five years after they met in The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Thaniel Steepleton an unassuming translator and Keita Mori the watchmaker who remembers the future are traveling to Japan. Thaniel has received an unexpected posting to the British legation in Tokyo and Mori has business that is taking him to Yokohama. Thaniels brief is odd the legation staff have been seeing ghosts and Thaniels first task is to find out whats really going on. But while staying with Mori he starts to experience ghostly happenings himself. For reasons Mori wontor cantshare he is frightened. Then he vanishes. Meanwhile something strange is happening in a frozen labor camp in Northern Japan. Takiko Pepperharrow an old friend of Moris must investigate. As the weather turns bizarrely electrical and ghosts haunt the country from Tokyo to Aokigahara forest Thaniel grows convinced that it all has something to do with Moris disappearanceand that Mori may be in serious danger. Wonderful... A lovely blending of steam punk ether science Japanese historical figures and a timedefying thriller. Robin Hobb author of THE FARSEER TRILOGY show more
Condition : New
Author : Natasha Pulley
Weight : 664
Publisher : BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Language : English
EAN : 9781635576542
ISBN10 : 1635576547
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20240606
Place of Publication : New York
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 140 X 208 X 38mm