Book 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, its own
language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe
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.
Daphne du Maurier (1907-89) was born in London, educated at home and
in Paris, and lived for much of her life in her beloved Cornwall, the
setting for many of her novels. Most of her novels have been bestsellers
and many have been made into films. She is considered one of the most
accomplished novelists of the twentieth century.
