Kate no longer wishes to follow Tully into broadcasting and is more drawn to fiction writing, but she hesitates to tell her overbearing friend. Tully lands an internship at KCPO-TV in Seattle and finagles a producing job for Kate.
Tully has a life goal for them both: They will become network TV anchorwomen. In college, “TullyandKate” pledge the same sorority and major in communications. Tully takes refuge with the family of her “best friend forever,” Kate Mularkey, who compares herself unfavorably with Tully, in regards to looks and charisma. Tallulah “Tully” Hart, father unknown, is the daughter of a hippie, Cloud, who makes only intermittent appearances in her life. Lifelong, conflicted friendship of two women is the premise of Hannah’s maudlin latest ( Magic Hour, 2006, etc.), again set in Washington State. Neither is the scenario-as if Victorian America had invaded 1930's England-particularly convincing. A neat enough idea, but the tone is wrong from the start, as broad comedy-adventure (part one) veers into farcical parody (part two) before subsiding into straightforward melodrama (part three). Ives seizes Kelvin's machine, which turns out to be a time machine, and sets off to make significant alterations to history-not least, the prevention of Alice's murder.
Ives attempting to recover Kelvin's machine from beneath the English Channel while battling a cast of bad guys intent on revivifying the supposedly dead Narbondo. Ignacio Narbondo, struggles to prevent said Narbondo from causing Earth to collide with a passing comet simultaneously he must sabotage Lord Kelvin's superpowerful electromagnetic machine that, if used to repel the comet, would produce still another disaster. Ives, despondent after the recent murder of his wife Alice by the diabolical hunchback Dr. Three-part ``steampunk''-Victorian fantasy-outing for the author of the noteworthy Land of Dreams and The Paper Grail.
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