EAN: 9780008153892

CHEVALIER TRACY THE GLASSMAKER

'Spellbinding' ELIF SHAFAK 'Ingenious' THE TIMES  Book of the Year 'Sparkling' OBSERVER 'A
triumph' PHILIP PULLMAN 'As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead' INDEPENDENT 'Meticulously
researched and evoking the beauty of the Venice lagoon' PHILIPPA GREGORY '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 perfecting. In secret  Orsola
Rosso learns to craft glass. As a woman  she must flout convention to save her family from
ruin. We follow her through hundreds of years of war and plague  tragedy and triumph  love and
loss. Skipping like a stone across the centuries  The Glassmaker is a virtuoso portrait of a
woman  a family and a city that are as everlasting as glass.

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