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The Glass of Time

A Novel

by Michael Cox
Josephine Bailey
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Like its predecessor, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox's The Glass of Time is an engrossing period mystery about identity, the nature of secrets, and what happens when past obsessions impose themselves on an unwilling present. In the autumn of 1876, nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to become a lady's maid to the twenty-sixth Baroness Tansor. But Esperanza is no ordinary servant. She has been sent by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de l'Orme, to uncover the secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal and to set right a past injustice in which Esperanza's own life is bound up. At Evenwood, she meets Lady Tansor's two dashing sons, Perseus and Randolph, and finds herself enmeshed in a complicated web of seduction, intrigue, deceit, betrayal, and murder. Few writers are as gifted at evoking the sensibility of the nineteenth century as Michael Cox, who has made the world of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins his own.

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  • Release date

    November 3, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400129768
      • File size: 520951 KB
      • Duration: 18:05:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In the sequel to THE MEANING OF NIGHT, Josephine Bailey's extraordinary range of voices transforms Michael Cox's characters into flesh-and-blood people with dark secrets and mysterious connections going back twenty years. Esperanza Gorst, young, well tutored, and cultured, is sent to Evenwood, a great country house, as lady's maid to Baroness Tansor. Esperanza is on a mission she wholly accepts but doesn't fully understand. Bailey's voicing can be seductive or matter-of-fact, ingenuous or knowing, gravelly or mellifluous. Her outstanding performance makes 19-year-old Esperanza a charming, if occasionally air-headed, vixen; turns the Baroness into a wily, if sometimes pathetic, adversary; and gives Perseus and Randolph, the Baroness's two sons, markedly distinct personalities. To fully enjoy this engaging nineteenth-century romantic mystery, first listen to the earlier novel. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from August 18, 2008
      Set in 1876, Cox's gripping second gothic thriller (after The Meaning of Night
      ) follows the fortunes of 19-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst, whose guardian charges her to go undercover as a lady's maid. Without knowing precisely why she's doing so, Gorst insinuates herself into the inner circle of Baroness Tansor, the fiancée of the preceding volume's villain, Phoebus Daunt. The fake maid soon learns that her mistress has many secrets, and may, in fact, have been complicit in the death of a former servant. Cox excels at conveying his heroine's conflict over deceiving her employer, especially after learning the role the lady played in her own difficult personal history. While readers unfamiliar with the first book will find themselves deeply engaged by the elegant descriptive prose, those with the benefit of the full context and nuances of The Meaning of Night
      will better appreciate this sequel.

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