The Clock Winder

With wondrous observations and bittersweet humor the beloved best-selling Pulitzer Prize–winning author tells the story of an unsuspecting young woman who becomes the North star that helps a stumbling dysfunctional family find its footing.. Mrs. Emerson widowed with seven adult children lives alone in crumbling Victorian mansion outside Baltimore with only a collection of antique clocks to keep her company. Elizabeth Abbott—twenty-three years old aimless bohemian and beautiful—leads a vagabond lifestyle until she happens upon Mrs. Emerson’s home and convinces the older woman to hire her as a handyman. When three of the strange idiosyncratic Emerson children return to their childhood home for a visit they are irresistibly drawn to Elizabeth.