Glass Houses 'A devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction' Louise O'Neill

<p><b>''Desire, class and Welsh nationalism prove a combustible combination in this brooding literary romance'' <i>Observer</i></b><br><b><br>''At once a love story and a simmering tale of class, identity, and masculinity'' <i>i paper</i></b><br><b><br>''Evokes North Wales in all its complexity, in water, resin and sky'' Jessica Andrews</b><br>_______<br><br>Geth and Olwen live in different worlds. Olwen left North Wales for London to become a filmmaker and lives with her banker husband. Geth stayed in their rural hometown and works as a forester. They were in love once, but now they are strangers to each other.<br><br>That is, until Olwen returns, moving into the lakeside house that Geth looks after for absent English owners; the house he has come to think of as his own. Before they know it, they find themselves pulled back together - back into the past and what could have been - or still could be. Taking us from the incendiary world of radical politics in Thatcher''s Britain to the housing crisis of the present day, <i>Glass Houses </i>is a story about love and friendship, about class and rural life, and about the disappointments of those who leave and those who stay.<br>_______<br><br><b>''A beautiful novel about class, first love and how places can define us'' <i>Good Housekeeping</i></b><br><b><br>''A cinematic page-turner'' <i>Buzz</i> <i>Magazine</i></b></p>