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More copies of this ISBNThe Glass of Time: The Secret Life of Miss Esperanza Gorstby Michael Cox
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:'Like its \"beguiling\" and \"intelligent\" (New York Times Book Review) predecessor, The Glass of Timeis a page turning period mystery about identity, the nature of secrets, and what happens when past obsessions impose themselves on an unwilling present. In the autumn of 1876, nineteen year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to become a lady\'s maid to the twenty-sixth Baroness Tansor. But Esperanza is no ordinary servant. She has been sent by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de l\'Orme, to uncover the secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal, and to set right a past injustice in which Esperanza\'s own life is bound up. At Evenwood she meets Lady Tansor\'s two dashing sons, Perseus and Randolph, and finds herself enmeshed in a complicated web of seduction, intrigue, deceit, betrayal, and murder. Few writers are as gifted at evoking the sensibility of the nineteenth century as Michael Cox, who has made the world of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins his own.' Synopsis:Absorbing. . . . Literary pastiche at its very best.Starred Review. Cox"s gripping second gothic thriller (after The Meaning of Night) follows the fortunes of nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst, whose guardian charges her to go undercover as a lady"s maid.Michael Cox returns with another epic Victorian-era thriller. . . . [A] gripping tale of psychological unraveling.
Synopsis:"Entirely wonderful . . . chock-full of revenge, romance, duplicity, concealed identities and murder most frequent."--Washington Post Synopsis:Building on his haunting, superbly written debut, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox returns to a story of murder, love, and revenge in Victorian England. The Glass of Time is a vividly imagined study of seduction, betrayal, and friendship between two powerful women bound together by the past. About the AuthorMichael Cox (1948-2009) was the biographer of the ghost-story writer and scholar M. R. James. His first novel, The Meaning of Night, was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa First Novel Award. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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