This book blew me away! The concept is so unusual and I wasn’t sure if it would work, but it really did and I loved it.

Commencing in 1486, Orsola Rosso is the daughter in the male dominated field of glassmaking on Murano, near Venice. We’re told that time works differently in Venice, and so decades and centuries go by in the outside world, while the Rosso family endure. Plague, occupation, wars, depressions……in The Glassmaker is a history of the craft, the city and those who live there. It’s cleverly written, and I will be highly recommending it.