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The Glass of Time

On sale

9th July 2009

Price: £7.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780719596902

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1876. Nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to be interviewed for the position of lady’s-maid.

But Esperanza is no ordinary servant. She has been sent by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de lOrme, to uncover the dark and dangerous secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal, and to set right a past injustice in which Esperanzas own closest interests are bound up.

Gradually those secrets are revealed, and with them the truth of who Esperanza really is, enmeshing her in a complicated web of intrigue, deceit, and murder that culminates in betrayal by those she trusted most.

A sequel to the widely praised The Meaning of Night, The Glass of Time is a page-turning period mystery and a gripping novel about identity, obsession and secrets.

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Reviews

Daily Mail
A satisfyingly sinister yarn
The Times
'Engrossing . . . all the ingredients of a Gothic romance'
Bookseller
'A Gutsy 18-year-old heroine masquerades as a lady's maid to uncover dark secrets. Sounds intriguing'
Times Literary Supplement
'Absorbing'
Good Book Guide
'This is a period mystery told with great skill, notable for its marvellous sense of the past and vividly drawn characters'