The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier

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.

• Format:
  • Paperback / softback
  • 400 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: The Borough Press
• ISBN: 9780008153892
• Published: 8 May 2025
• Classifications:
  • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
• Weight: 350g
• Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 32 (mm)