Bridport Literary Festival: Tracy Chevalier

We are delighted to announce that the international best-selling author, Tracy Chevalier, will be with us to talk about her latest spellbinding new novel, The Glass Maker.

Tracy has been visiting Venice regularly since her honeymoon there thirty years ago and her story is a vivid and inventive portrait of a woman, a family and a city that is as everlasting as their glass. In Venice 1486, across the lagoon lies Murano celebrated for its brilliance of glass creation. Women are not expected to work with such precious transparent material but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. Skipping like a stone through centuries, we follow Orsola as she hones her craft through tragedy and triumph, war and plague, through love and loss to create the perfection of a lifetime.

Author of Remarkable Creatures and Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy is undoubtedly one of our most popular and critically acclaimed writers and she will be in conversation about her work with fellow writer, Jo Willett.

Thursday 19 June at 2.30pm