The Glass of Time: The Secret Life of Miss Esperanza Gorst

by Michael Cox

Book Overview

Like its "beguiling" and "intelligent" (New York Times Book Review) predecessor, The Glass of Time is 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393067734
• ISBN13: 9780393067736
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"