A review by vaporization
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

4.0

It is much less confusing on a second read, and after being well-familiarized with Natasha Pulley's writing and this kind of magical realism.

Telegraphist with not much of a life moves in with a watchmaker because 1. he's lonely 2. he's strapped for cash 3. the watchmaker might be a terrorist. He meets a not-like-other-girls scientist who at almost no point is sympathetic. Is it a bomb or is it a firecracker. And they were roommates.