The Clockmaker's Wife

The world is at war. And time is running out… New York, 2020, Christmas EveHelena, 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, 1940The 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?