January 2024
Big news at last that I know many have been waiting for: my new novel The Glassmaker will be published this year! It has been a long haul to reach this point, delayed partly by the pandemic and partly because it's a longer book spanning 500 years, and I play around with time in a way that took a while to get right. It is about Orsola Rosso, a girl from a glassmaking family on Murano, an island off Venice., and her long journey to becoming a glassmaker. Over centuries she meets real people: beadmaker Maria Barovier, Casanova, Josephine Bonaparte... Yes, that's right, centuries. She is 9 when the story begins in 1486, and in her late 60s in 2022. How? Time alla Veneziana. To figure that out, you'll have to read it!
The Glassmaker is published at different times this year:
June: France and USA
September: UK and Italy and Germany
October: Spain
Should you want to preorder, you can do so here:
Above are the two beautiful covers designed so far. Which is the USA, which UK?
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Published in June in France, I can't wait
Yes! I can't wait either! I'm thinking the first color ful image is from the US, the darker blue, the UK?
I am looking forward to this book! As a reading challenge this year, I've challenged myself to read all of your books. (I confess I'd only read the The Girl with the Pearl Earring and The Virgin Blue until now.) I just finished The Edge of the Orchard and of course I enjoyed it! My sister said that you spoke at Politics and Prose about this one and maybe my mother even saw you then. I am loving A Single Thread. Such strong women, such good writing and I always learn something from your books.
Hello Tracy! This is excellent news and I can’t wait to read it. The topic sounds fascinating. I’ve read all your books and I always learn something new from them. Thanks for all your hard work.
So excited for this one! I have a bit of thing for glass!! So should be right up my street. Thanks so much!
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