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.