Carey, Peter,  1943- <br/><br/>
The chemistry of tears / 
Peter Carey. 
 - Camberwell, Vic. :  Hamish Hamilton,  2012. 
 - 268 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> When Catherine's lover dies suddenly, she has no-one to turn to - their affair had been disguised from their colleagues and his family - except her work. A middle-aged curator in a London museum, Catherine is given a very particular project by the perceptive head of her department: a box of intricate clockwork parts that appear to be the remains of a nineteenth century automaton - a beautifully made mechanical bird. When she discovers that the box also contains the diary of the man who commissioned the machine, she is partially rescued from one obsession by another - who were Henry Brandling and the mysterious, visionary clockmaker he hired to make a gift for his absent son? And what was the end result that now sits in pieces in her studio? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781926428154 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell VIC 3124 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bereavement--Fiction.<br/>Robots--Fiction.<br/>Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Psychological fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>A823.3