'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 
 
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.