New York, 2020, Christmas Eve Helena, 38, is looking through the possessions of her grandmother, a resident of London in WW2. She finds a beautiful watch with a broken face, concealed in the back of a picture frame, with the initials AS engraved on the back. But her grandmother's name was Elizabeth--so who is AS?
December, 1940 The Battle of Britain is over. Furious in defeat, Goring promises Hitler that he will drop a bomb on the Houses of Parliament on New Year's Eve, thereby wrecking Big Ben too.
One man stands in their way: Arthur Spielmann, the Jewish clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. Spielmann overhears a conversation between two members of a Tory Party faction, working with the Nazis, both of whom have links with Oswald Moseley.
Arthur needs someone to infiltrate the conspirators--and his young wife, Audrey, is the only one he trusts. But will she leave their young daughter and risk her own life for her country?
Publisher: HarperCollins
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 0008444633
Item Weight: 0.6 lbs
Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.0 x 7.8 inches
Customer Reviews: 3 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
Daisy Wood worked in publishing for some years before leaving to concentrate on her own writing. She has had several children's books published, both historical and contemporary, and is happiest rootling about in the London Library on the pretext of research. She lives in south London and when not locked away in her study can be seen in various city parks, running after a rescue pointer with a basset hound in tow.
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