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The Glassmaker
- Narrated by: Juliet Aubrey
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary
'Ingenious' THE TIMES, Book of the Month
'Sparkling'OBSERVER
'A triumph… beyond admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN
'Spellbinding…. Chevalier at her fabulous best' ELIF SHAFAK
‘A spectacular feat, crafted by a maestra at the top of her game’ SPECTATOR
FROM THE GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRINGVenice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to handle.
Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She works in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect to be accepted by men. But perfection may take a lifetime.
Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola as she hones her craft through war and plague, tragedy and triumph, love and loss.
The beads she creates will adorn the necks of empresses and courtesans from Paris to Vienna – but will she ever earn the respect of those closest to her?
Tracy Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is vivid, inventive, spellbinding: a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as their glass.
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- eGJ
- 29-09-24
A fascinating book to listen to
Once you have grasped how the time jumps forward and our heroine only ages just a few years, you are drawn in to the history of Venice and Morano. Glassmaking progresses, the characters adapt to the age and from Plague to Covid you can’t stop being enchanted by the whole!
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-09-24
a genuine original story
the flow of the story was magical, it was intriguing and too you right there to the time an place.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-09-24
The glass bead game
I loved the narration from
the best Dorothea Brooke ever. I liked the premise and appreciated the amount of research TC did but perhaps too much detail. However, I do enjoy historical fiction from a female POV and the time travel theme from the plague to Covid.
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- Sally Margulies
- 24-09-24
Excellent
Again Tracy Chevalier has written a beautiful book, so well researched and therefore interesting, plus learnt a great deal about Venice, Merano and the glass blowing industry from an age gone by following a family and much more.
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