The Glass-Blowers

Daphne Du Maurier

The Glass-Blowers
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Country
United Kingdom
Published
12 July 2004
Pages
384
ISBN
9781844080656

The Glass-Blowers

Daphne Du Maurier

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA

‘Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it’

Faithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it’s own language - and its own rules.

‘If you marry into glass’ Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, ‘you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world’. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution against which, the family struggles to survive.

The Glass Blowers is a remarkable achievement - an imaginative and exciting reworking of du Maurier’s own family history.

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