The Glassblower of Murano - Marina Fiorato

When Nora's stuffy surgeon husband leaves her for another woman, she sells up and heads to Venice, the city where she was born and from where her father - who dies when she was very young - was from. She knows she is descended from Corradino Manin a famous seventeenth century Venetian glassmaker and, as an artist herself, she decides to see if she can find a job in a glassworks. When she gets there, however, she soon finds out that not everyone shares the view that Manin is a hero so she sets out to find out the truth about her revered ancestor. The story is told in (almost) alternating chapters between the past and the present. I found this rather ...  Read the complete review