{"product_id":"daphne-du-maurier-the-glass-blowers-2004-paperback","title":"Daphne du Maurier: The Glass-blowers [2004] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eREBECCA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eThis French Revolution epic is an overlooked classic' MELISSA KATSOULIS, \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . ' MARGARET FORSTER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaithful 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eIf you marry into glass\u003c\/i\u003e' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, '\u003ci\u003eyou will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world\u003c\/i\u003e'. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution against which, the family struggles to survive. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Glass-Blowers\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable achievement - an imaginative and exciting reworking of du Maurier's own family history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Du Maurier, Daphne \u0026 De Kretser, Michelle","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":55802606551379,"sku":"9781844080656","price":14.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/du-maurier-daphne-de-kretser-michelle-daphne-du-maurier-the-glass-blowers-2004-paperback-9781844080656-1266833666.jpg?v=1794258157","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/daphne-du-maurier-the-glass-blowers-2004-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}