EAN: 9780349007670

HOUSE OF GLASS - SUSAN FLETCHER TASCHENBUCH

1914. Clara Waterfield   twenty years old and newly bereaved  is summoned to a large stone
house in rural Gloucestershire. Her task: to fill a glasshouse with exotic plants from Kew
Gardens  to create a private paradise for the owner of Shadowbrook. But on arrival  she hears
dark rumours. Flowers are dying in their vases  curious marks appear on doors - and the maids
seem nervous  afraid. Who lived at Shadowbrook  before? And who is living there now? `House of
Glass may start as a ghost story but it turns into something much more profound: a lyrical
examination of how women carve lives out of a male-dominated society even with a looming war
that will change everyone. I was suprised and moved' Tracy Chevalier `It is beautiful and
mesmerising  like entering a dream. I was spellbound and couldn't do anything else but keep
reading' - Jill Dawson 'Menacing characters  dark secrets... A hothouse of a novel... ' -
Caroline Sanderson  The Bookseller (thumbnail photo of author and Let me Tell you about a Man I
knew)

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