A “consistently entertaining” saga of beauty, war, and family set during the French Revolution, from the author of Rebecca and The Birds (New York Times). 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. Years later, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. Drawing on her own family’s tale of tradition and sorrow, Daphne du Maurier weaves an unforgettable saga of beauty, war, and family.
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ASIN : B00GR5MZH8
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : December 17, 2013
Language : English
File size : 1.3 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780316253512
ISBN-13 : 978-0316253512
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #273,174 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #870 in Historical British Fiction #1,711 in Saga Fiction #1,970 in War Fiction (Kindle Store)
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