Lower Rhumbsford is a city far removed from its glory days. On the banks of the great River Rhumb, its founding fathers channelled the rivers mighty flow into a subterranean labyrinth of pipes, valves and sluices, a feat of hydraulic prowess that would come to power an empire. But a thousand years have passed since then, and something is wrong the pipes are leaking, the valves stuck, the sluices silted, and the oncetorrential Rhumb has been reduced to a sluggish trickle.The fortunes of the Locke family, descendants of the citys most celebrated engineer, are similarly reduced. In a oncefashionable quarter of the oncegreat city, siblings Samuel and Briony Locke are about to be drawn into a web of ancestral secrets and imperial intrigues, as a ruthless new power arises...Reviews for A Clockwork River Exuberant isnt often a word youd apply to fantasy novels, but A Clockwork River rushes along at a pace to match the waterway at its heart SFX Delightfully weird and clever Grimdark Magazine Oh, just plunge into this "hydropunk" fantasy novel, will you The Times

Binding: Paperback;480 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc; Classification: F; Weight: 606 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 56

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