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A page-turning late-Victorian mystery by a master, The Glass of Time is for fans of The Meaning of Night and for readers new to Michael Cox alike.
Picking up the lives of characters from the first novel some twenty years later, The Glass of Time begins in 1876. Nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives from Paris at the great country house of Evenwood to become lady’s maid to the 26th Baroness Tansor, the former Miss Emily Carteret. But Esperanza is no ordinary servant. She has been sent by her guardian, the mysterious “Madame,” to uncover the secrets that her new mistress has concealed for decades, and to set right a past injustice which — although Esperanza does not know it — is intimately linked with her own future as well as her past.
Gradually, those secrets are revealed, and with them the true identities of nearly every character — for it seems that no one in Esperanza’s world is who she believes them to be. She finds herself enmeshed in a complicated web of intrigue, deceit, and murder that culminates in a devastating betrayal by those she trusted most.
Richly textured and elegantly told, The Glass of Time is a completely enveloping tale of identity, of the unexpected consequences of hidden truths, and of what can happen when past obsessions impose themselves on an unwilling present.
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Michael Cox is the editor of The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories and The Oxford Book of Victorian Detective Stories, and the biographer of the ghost-story writer and scholar M.R. James. He lives with his wife in rural Northamptonshire. His first novel, the internationally acclaimed The Meaning of Night, was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa First Novel Award, and he was nominated for Waterstone’s Newcomer of the Year at the 2006 Galaxy British Book Awards.
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- VerlagMcClelland & Stewart Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum2008
- ISBN 10 0771023073
- ISBN 13 9780771023071
- EinbandTapa dura
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten544
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