The Glassmaker The Glassmaker

Publisher Description

'Ingenious' THE TIMES, Book of the Year

'Sparkling' OBSERVER

'A triumph… beyond admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN

'Spellbinding…. Chevalier at her fabulous best' ELIF SHAFAK

'As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead… one of the reigning queens of historical fiction' INDEPENDENT

‘A spectacular feat, crafted by a maestra at the top of her game’ SPECTATOR

FROM THE GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to handle.

Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She works in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect to be accepted by men. But perfection may take a lifetime.

Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola as she hones her craft through war and plague, tragedy and triumph, love and loss.

The beads she creates will adorn the necks of empresses and courtesans from Paris to Vienna – but will she ever earn the respect of those closest to her?

Tracy Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is vivid, inventive, spellbinding: a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as their glass.

About the author

Tracy Chevalier has been visiting Venice regularly since her honeymoon there thirty years ago. She is the author of eleven novels, including A Single Thread, Remarkable Creatures and Girl with a Pearl Earring, an international bestseller that has sold over five million copies and been made into a film, a play and an opera. Born in Washington DC, she moved to the United Kingdom in 1986. She and her husband divide their time between London and Dorset.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
JA
Juliet Aubrey
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
14:22
hr min
RELEASED
2024
12 September
PUBLISHER
The Borough Press
SIZE
925.2
MB
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