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.