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The Dark Unwinding

In 1852, seventeen-year-old orphan Katharine Tulman is sent from London to Stranwyne Keep, her uncle's Victorian estate, with a monumental task: to commit him to an asylum. Her aunt believes he is "unbalanced in his mind" and is depleting the family fortune. However, Katharine is astounded to find that Stranwyne is home to a gasworks, a kiln, and two idyllic villages populated by some 800 souls rescued from the workhouses. Her uncle is not a lunatic but a vulnerable, genius inventor on the autism spectrum, a wizard with gadgets but helpless in society. With the help of her uncle's handsome chief caregiver, Lane, Katharine agrees to a 30-day stay. As she discovers her uncle's ingenious clockwork inventions and falls for Lane, she begins to experience inexplicable, violent episodes that put her future, the town, and all of England in peril. Inspired by the life of an eccentric real-life duke, this gothic coming-of-age story is filled with gripping twists and an evocative landscape

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No. Panggil

813.6 CAM t c1

Penerbit

New York : Scholastic Inc.., 2012

Deskripsi Fisik

318 pages : 22 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780545624510

Klasifikasi

813.6

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Subjek

Eccentrics - - Juvenile fiction

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When a rumor surfaces that her uncle is squandering the family fortune, Katharine Tulman is sent to his estate to have him committed to an asylum. But instead of a lunatic, Katharine discovers a genius inventor who employs a village of nine hundred people rescued from the workhouses of London. As the mysteries of the estate begin to unravel, Katharine is torn between protecting her own inheritance and preserving the peculiar community she has grown to care for

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