Author: Rachel HorePublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Glass Painter's Daughter
Author: Rachel HoreThe Glass Painter's Daughter
Author: Rachel HorePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847398685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
From the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes a gripping and moving story about family secrets, unrequited love, reconciliation and renewal. In a tiny stained-glass shop hidden in the backstreets of Westminster lies the cracked, sparkling image of an angel. The owners of Minster Glass have also been broken: Fran Morrison's mother died when she was a baby; a painful event never mentioned by her difficult, secretive father Edward. Fran left home to pursue a career in foreign cities, as a classical musician. But now Edward is dangerously ill and it's time to return. Taking her father's place in the shop, she and his craftsman Zac accept a beguiling commission - to restore a shattered glass picture of an exquisite angel belonging to a local church. As they reassemble the dazzling shards of coloured glass, they uncover an extraordinary love story from the Victorian past, sparked by the window's creation. Slowly, Fran begins to see her own reflection in its themes of passion, tragedy and redemption. Fran's journey will lead her on a search for the truth about her mother, through mysteries of past times and the anguish of unrequited love, to reconciliation and renewal. Praise for Rachel Hore's novels: ‘A tour de force. Rachel's Paris is rich, romantic, exotic and mysterious’ JUDY FINNIGAN ‘An elegiac tale of wartime love and secrets’ Telegraph ‘A richly emotional story, suspenseful and romantic, but unflinching in its portrayal of the dreadful reality and legacy of war’ Book of the Week, Sunday Mirror 'Pitched perfectly for a holiday read' Guardian 'Engrossing, pleasantly surprising and throughly readable' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'A beautifully written and magical novel about life, love and family' CATHY KELLY
The Glass Painter's Daughter
Author: Rachel HorePublisher:
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Category : Fathers and daughters
Languages : en
Pages :
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Fran Morrison, a peripatetic musician, is summoned home to London after her father has a stroke, and she finds herself in charge of the family business, a stained glass workshop in an historic backwater of Westminster that was founded in the Victorian heyday of stained glass-making. Fran also yearns to find out the truth about what happened to her mother, who died when she was small, and why her father has always refused to discuss what happened.
The Painter's Daughters
Author: Emily HowesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668021404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A “beautifully written” (Hilary Mantel) story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renowned 1700s English painter Thomas Gainsborough, who struggle to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits. Peggy and Molly Gainsborough—the daughters of one of England’s most famous portrait artists of the 1700s and the frequent subject of his work—are best friends. They spy on their father as he paints, rankle their mother as she manages the household, and run barefoot through the muddy fields that surround their home. But there is another reason they are inseparable: from a young age, Molly periodically experiences bouts of mental confusion, even forgetting who she is, and Peggy instinctively knows she must help cover up her sister’s condition. When the family moves to Bath, it’s not so easy to hide Molly’s slip-ups. There, the sisters are thrown into the whirlwind of polite society, where the codes of behavior are crystal clear. Molly dreams of a normal life but slides deeper and more publicly into her delusions. By now, Peggy knows the shadow of an asylum looms for women like Molly, and she goes to greater lengths to protect her sister’s secret. But when Peggy unexpectedly falls in love with her father’s friend, the charming composer Johann Fischer, the sisters’ precarious situation is thrown catastrophically off course. Her burgeoning love for Johann sparks the bitterest of betrayals, forcing Peggy to question all she has done for Molly, and whether any one person can truly change the fate of another. A tense and tender examination of the blurred lines between protection and control, The Painter’s Daughters is a searing portrait of the real girls behind the canvas. Emily Howes’s debut is a stunning exploration of devotion, control, and individuality; it is a love song to sisterhood, to the many hues of life, and to being looked at but never really seen.
The Girl Behind the Glass
Author: Jane KelleyPublisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375862196
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Eleven-year-old twins Hannah and Anna agree about everything—especially that they don't want to move to the creepy old house on Hemlock Road. But as soon as they move into the house, the twins start disagreeing for the first time in their lives. In fact, it's almost as though something or someone is trying to drive them apart. While Anna settles in, Hannah can't ignore the strange things that keep happening on Hemlock Road. Why does she sense things that no one else in the family does? It's almost as though someone is trying to talk to her. Someone no one else can hear. Someone angry enough to want revenge. Hannah, are you listening? Is the house haunted? Is Hannah crazy? Or does something in the house want her as a best friend—forever?
Notes and Queries
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
A Dictionary of Artists of the English School
Author: Samuel RedgravePublisher: London : Longmans, Green and Company
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Dictionary of Painters and Engravers
Author: Michael BryanPublisher:
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Category : Engravers
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings
Author: John Denison ChamplinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Walter A. LiedtkePublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392732
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 1109
Book Description
Presents a catalog that surveys the Dutch paintings found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
