Tracy Chevalier
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Language
English
Description
"In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass--but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague rearing its head over Venice...
Author
Pub. Date
19uu
Language
English
Description
At the dawn of the 20th century, London is still very much entrenched in the Victorian era. Both visiting the nearby cemetery to visit graves with their families, Maude, the plain daughter of an upper crust family, and Livia, the beautiful daughter of a working class family, begin to forge an important friendship. But as the years pass by, the friends begin to grow apart as English society is pushed into a new, more liberal age.
In January 1901,...