The Glass-Blowers

<p><b>FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>REBECCA</i></b><br><br><b>'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' <i>GUARDIAN</i></b><br><br><b><i>'</i>This French Revolution epic is an overlooked classic' MELISSA KATSOULIS, <i>THE TIMES </i></b><br><br><b>'No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . ' MARGARET FORSTER</b><br><br><i>'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.'</i><br><br>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. <br><br>'<i>If you marry into glass</i>' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, '<i>you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world</i>'. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution against which, the family struggles to survive. <br><br><i>The Glass-Blowers</i> is a remarkable achievement - an imaginative and exciting reworking of du Maurier's own family history.</p>