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Plot summary. Catherine Gehrig is a middle-aged horologist working in "the Georgian halls" of the Swinburne Museum, London SW1. For the last 13 years she has been in love with her married colleague, Matthew Tindall, and when he dies suddenly she is distraught.
- Peter Carey
- 2012
Jan 1, 2012 · The Chemistry of Tears. Peter Carey. 2.96. 4,142 ratings727 reviews. When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover’s sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to “life” a nineteenth-century mechanical bird.
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About The Chemistry of Tears. A Seattle Times Best Book of 2012 When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover’s sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to “life” a nineteenth-century mechanical bird.
- Paperback
The Chemistry Of Tears is split between the story of Catherine Gehrig, a museum curator in present-day London, and the 19th-century man whose mechanical swan, modelled on the Vaucanson, sits on her desk, waiting to be reassembled.
Feb 12, 2013 · A Seattle Times Best Book of 2012. When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover’s sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to “life” a nineteenth-century mechanical bird.
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- 2012
- Peter Carey
THE CHEMISTRY OF TEARS | Peter Carey, writer, Booker Award winning novelist. the story | jackets | reviews | profile | bbc tv. London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the sudden death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years.
Jan 25, 2012 · In The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey delivers a heartbreakingly beautiful and archly inventive story of love, loss and the birth of the machine age. When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work.
