Every Clock I Ever Mended

About this book

Every Clock I Ever Mended is a warm, unhurried, deeply satisfying novel about the smallest possible time machine. Bruno Sartori is seventy four and has kept a watchmaker's shop on the square of Montecalvo, an invented hill town in central Italy, since he was twenty three. He discovered what he could do at thirty one, by accident, while winding a longcase clock he had rebuilt for the widow Ferri, and he has spent forty three years working out the rules of it, which are strict and which the novel lays out with great care because they are the engine of every good thing in it.