"From the author of To Capture What We Cannot Keep, Beatrice Colin's The Glass House is a novel set on a remote Scottish estate, about the heiress and the mysterious woman from India who shows up on her doorstep"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young widow and an engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high ...
"Scotland, 1912. Antonia McCulloch's life hasn't gone the way she planned. She and her husband, Malcolm, have drifted apart, her burgeoning art career came to nothing and when she looks in the mirror, she sees disappointment. But at least she will always have Balmarra, her family...
Lilly Nelly Aphrodite, born to a cabaret performer at the turn of the 20th century, is orphaned as a young child. As she makes her way through life, Lilly survives countless tumultuous relationships and unsatisfying jobs before becoming one of Germany's leading silent-film stars....
Beatrice Colin's The Glass House is a gorgeously transporting novel filled with turn-of-the-century detail and lush blooms, about two women from vastly different worlds Scotland, 1912. Antonia McCulloch's life hasn't gone the way she planned. She and her husband, Malcolm, have...
Ten-year-old Frank's thirteen-year-old sister Elizabeth, invisible since birth, continually causes trouble, forcing the family to move again and again, but Frank wants to stay put and decides to find a way to make her visible.
The debauched celebration of the cabaret era. The magical ascent of cinema. The deprivations of World War I and the build up to World War II. Set against the rise and fall of Berlin and the innovations in art that accompanied it, The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite brilliantly w...