The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1)

by Natasha Pulley

There didn’t need to be a country for that. A man could have a character independent of his nation.

It’s no use growing up too fast; you can’t get away with half as much,’

‘I’m in disguise and running away from my husband’s best friend, who can remember the future,’ she said, because her mind was too full to conjure lies. ‘I’m trying to beat him back to his house now, so that I might steal his clockwork octopus, which runs on random gears.’