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.