Natasha Pulley is a renowned British author of historical fiction and fantasy stories. She is well known for writing The Watchmaker of Filigree Street series. The first book of this series, having the same name as the series, has won the Betty Trask Award. Winning this award became the highlight of Pulley’s career as she got noticed by the who’s who of the writing world. Author Pulley made her debut in the world of publishing in 2015. She was born on December 4, 1988, in the United Kingdom. She completed her education in English Literature from Soham Village College, New College, Oxford. Thereafter, Pulley obtained her master’s degree in creative writing from East Anglia University in 2012. Following her graduation, Pulley began teaching English. She was employed in China as a teacher of English for 6 weeks. During his time in the asylum Joe has the opportunity to learn some basic facts about Londres and how he is expected to behave. After a few days a kindly French man answers the asylum’s advertisement and claims he is Joe’s master. Joe, like most English people in this French colony, is a slave. nothing draws me more to a book than one that can make me /feel/. pulley went above and beyond that, making me feel a symphony of emotion. she wrapped her hand around my heart and yanked.

Pulley made something truly masterful here, balancing technique and structure with so much dazzling, ineffable intimacy in a way that makes it impossible not to stop and gawk. The resulting work is a book that you can’t read without wanting to talk about it. A novel with so much to say about war and civilization, trauma and memory, love and sacrifice—and the people heartbreakingly caught up in it.

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Wheeler, Sara (15 September 2017). "A 19th-Century Smuggler in the Peruvian Andes". The New York Times . Retrieved 29 December 2017. From the moment I started the sample, I couldn't stop reading. I was caught up in the suspense of the alternative-history plot (will the British be able to re-create a world in which they won the Battle of Trafalgar?) & in the central human mystery of who Joe is / who he is to Kite / whether Joe will be able to return to his daughter. You'll probably figure out the answers to the Joe questions long before Joe does, but it makes human sense that he doesn't get there till very late, and IMO the fact that he doesn't makes the uncertainty all the more poignant.

Given his confusion Joe is taken to a hospital and is diagnosed as having a form of epilepsy that includes both amnesia and paramnesia, a blurring of something imaginary and something real. People generally agree that it’s harder to review books you’ve enjoyed; that it’s harder to find the words to describe all the ways in which you loved a book, than it is to explain why you hated it. This statement, for me, has never been more true than right now. No detailed spoilers here, but please don't expect moral purity from any of the central characters. If you're looking for cinnamon rolls, this isn't your book.A history-based time travel adventure/romance, taking place in Great Britain around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. This also means that reviewing it is hard. I realllllly want to get all CAN I HAVE A MOMENT OF YOUR TIME TO TALK ABOUT OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR MISSOURI KITE, but my enthusiastic love for that character isn’t something I think I can articulate. Or that it would mean much to anyone who hasn’t yet read the book, even if I did. The character development in this novel is something that has to be experienced; Pulley does this amazing thing of very gradually making you become obsessed with the protagonists, so that you don’t even notice it’s happening until, boom, sad songs are reminding you of them. At least, that’s how it worked for me. Macneal, Elizabeth; Hurley, Andrew; etal. (et al) (2021). The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights (hardcovered.). Pegasus Crime. pp.1–336. ISBN 978-1643137971.