****Named as one of '50 Writers You Should Read Now' by* * ***The Guardian* ** **. From the award-winning author of** ***The Rift* ** **, Nina Allan,*****The Silver Wind* ** **is a remarkable narrative exploring the nature of time itself.** **
Martin Newland is fascinated by time. Watches and clocks are for him metaphorical time machines, a means of coming to terms with the past and voyaging into the future. But was his first timepiece a Smith, given to him on his fourteenth birthday, or the Longines he received four years later? Was it the small brass travelling clock unearthed in the run-down house for which he is to act as estate agent? And who is the maker of these time machines?
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****Named as one of '50 Writers You Should Read Now' by* * ***The Guardian* ** **. From the award-winning author of** ***The Rift* ** **, Nina Allan,*****The Silver Wind* ** **is a remarkable narrative exploring the nature of time itself.** ** Martin Newland is fascinated by time. Watches and clocks are for him metaphorical time machines, a means of coming to terms with the past and voyaging into the future. But was his first timepiece a Smith, given to him on his fourteenth birthday, or the Longines he received four years later? Was it the small brass travelling clock unearthed in the run-down house for which he is to act as estate agent? And who is the maker of these time machines?