The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
Description
Venice, 1486.
Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives perfecting.
In secret, Orsola Rosso learns to craft glass. As a woman, she must flout convention to save her family from ruin. We follow her through hundreds of years of war and plague, tragedy and triumph, love and loss.
Skipping like a stone across the centuries, The Glassmaker is a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as glass.
Borrow the book from the library and on the Libby app, listen on Audible, or buy from an independent bookseller.
This book will be discussed at our meeting on 20 October 2025
Coming soon to the Burton Book Club…
- in this month we each read a different title by Jane Austen in celebration of 250 years since her birth. Take your pick from: Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park | Emma | Northanger Abbey | Persuasion | or one of her unfinished novels or the novella
- Bitter Orange, Claire Fuller
- Eating for England, Nigel Slater
- The Names, Florence Knapp
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2 Comments
Julia Howey · 09/12/2025 at 5:51 pm
Hi
I’d love to join the book group meeting this coming Monday. Hope that will be ok.
Amanda Read · 09/12/2025 at 5:58 pm
Hi Julia, you are more than welcome to join us this Monday at 6pm in The Old House at Home.
Look forward to seeing you then.
Amanda