

The Glass of Time
A Novel
Author: Michael Cox
Narrator: Josephine Bailey
Unabridged: 18 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 11/03/2008
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: Michael Cox
Narrator: Josephine Bailey
Unabridged: 18 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 11/03/2008
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Michael Cox is the author of The Meaning of Night, which was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa First Novel Award. He is also the biographer of the ghost-story writer and scholar M. R. James and coeditor of a number of Oxford anthologies of short fiction, including The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories. Michael lives in rural Northamptonshire, England.
Gripping from the first page, this is a note-perfect pastiche of Victorian gothic fiction, remaining fantastically atmospheric throughout. With the naive young narrator, beautiful country house brimming with secrets, and unwelcoming housekeeper, it has definite echoes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca,......more
The brilliant The Meaning of Night is a tough act to follow, but on balance The Glass of Time holds its own mainly due to the narrator voice the young Esperanza "Alice" Gorst who is set on her "great task" by her adoptive mother known as "Madame" and her tutor known as Basil Thornhaugh. For people......more