Once again, not usually my kind of thing, but I’ve heard good things about it, so maybe it was worth a punt.
Set in Venice during … well, we’ll get to that in a minute … this epic tale follows the life and nearly loves of Orsola Rosso, one of the fabled glass makers who lived in Murano (a stone’s skip from Venice) round about the time of the Renaissance. Through the use of a slightly unconventional timeline, Orsola and her family ply their trade across several centuries, including such upheavals as the plague, the coming of high-volume manufacturing, and finally (believe it or not) COVID. Along the way, Orsola makes new friends, loses family and pines for a love lost to her across the extended passage of time …
