![]() ![]() ![]() The Glass-Blowers is a remarkable achievement – an imaginative and exciting reworking of du Maurier’s own family history. ![]() But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution against which, the family struggles to survive. ‘ If you marry into glass‘ Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, ‘ you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world‘. The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it’s own language and its own rules. 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.’įaithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. ‘Perhaps we shall not see each other again. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Glass-Blowers by Daphne Du Maurier 9781844080656 Brand New at the best online prices at. ‘No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification. ‘This French Revolution epic is an overlooked classic’ MELISSA KATSOULIS, THE TIMES Glass production was a thriving industry, led by hardworking, hands-on. a writer of fearless originality’ GUARDIAN It is a historical novel, set late in eighteenth and early nineteenth century France. ![]()
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