The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - Hardcover

Pulley, Natasha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1635573300 ISBN 13: 9781635573305

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Natasha Pulley's 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.

Thaniel's brief is odd: the legation staff have been seeing ghosts, and Thaniel's first task is to find out what's really going on. But while staying with Mori, he starts to experience ghostly happenings himself. For reasons Mori won't--or can't--share, 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 Mori's, 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 Mori's disappearance--and that Mori may be in serious danger.

About this title

Review:

"An epic journey . . . Pulley adroitly departs from the historical record to make the Peruvian story her own, turning it into a work of magic realism." --The New York Times Book Review on THE BEDLAM STACKS

"Pulley's second novel demonstrates that the imagination she showed in her impressive debut was no fluke." --Kirkus Reviews on THE BEDLAM STACKS

"Entrancing." --Publishers Weekly on THE BEDLAM STACKS

"Humor, wit, mystery and danger are threaded through the book in musical measure. It dances between genres and makes partners of several . . . There's nothing quite like putting down a delightful, relentlessly charming and deeply moving book and then finding out it's the author's first . . . Remarkable." --Los Angeles Times on THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET

"Assured and absorbing . . . immensely pleasurable reading. Pulley's prose is strong and energetic, with a wry edge, and even the most minor characters are drawn precisely." --The New York Times Book Review on THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET

"Enchanting . . . A rich brew of historical fantasy, philosophy and emotion." --The Washington Post on THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET

About the Author:

Natasha Pulley, the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Bedlam Stacks, studied English literature at Oxford University and earned a creative writing M.A. at the University of East Anglia. She lives in Bath, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1635573300
• ISBN 13: 9781635573305
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512