The Glass Blowers

Author: Daphne Du Maurier

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9781844080656
  • : Little Brown
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  • : July 2004
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  • : Daphne Du Maurier
  • : Virago Modern Classics
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Barcode 9781844080656
9781844080656

Description

'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 Labbi 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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* Review and feature coverage anticipated across the national press and women's magazines * Featured on the Virago website * POS available

Reviews

'Three cheers for a novelist who can write convincingly of human relationships and the horrors of civil war' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Author description

Daphne du Maurier was born in 1906 and educated at home and in Paris. She began writing in 1928, and many of her bestselling novels were set in Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life. She was made a DBE in 1969 and died in 1989.