'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.
