House of Glass

  • Author Susan Fletcher
  • Narrator Joanna Bending
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Run Time 12 hours and 11 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Fiction: general and literary.
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What to expect

I had a curious sense of being watched.

June 1914 and a young woman - Clara Waterfield - is summoned to a large stone house in Gloucestershire. Her task: to fill a greenhouse with exotic plants from Kew Gardens, to create a private paradise for the owner of Shadowbrook. Yet, on arrival, Clara hears rumours: something is wrong with this quiet, wisteria-covered house. Its gardens are filled with foxgloves, hydrangea and roses; it has lily-ponds, a croquet lawn - and the marvellous new glasshouse awaits her. But the house itself feels unloved. Its rooms are shuttered, or empty. The owner is mostly absent; the housekeeper and maids seem afraid. And soon, Clara understands their fear: for something - or someone - is walking through the house at night. In the height of summer, she finds herself drawn deeper into Shadowbrook's dark interior - and into the secrets that violently haunt this house. Nothing - not even the men who claim they wish to help her - is quite what it seems.

Reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier, this is a wonderful, atmospheric Gothic page-turner.

A deeply absorbing, unputdownable ghost story that's also a love story; for readers who love Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger; Frances Hodges Burnett's The Secret Garden; Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; Jane Harris's The Observations.

Critics Review

  • Brilliant characterisation, beautiful and mesmerising story: like entering a dream. I was spellbound and couldn’t do anything else but keep reading

    Jill Dawson
  • A gorgeous, darkly gothic treat

    Amanda Craig
  • House of Glass may start as a ghost story but turns into something much more profound: a lyrical examination of how women carve lives out of a male-dominated society, even with a war looming that will change everyone. I was surprised and moved

    Tracy Chevalier
  • Magical and often extremely moving. A gem

    Daily Mail
  • Moody and atmospheric – and just as compelling [as Daphne du Maurier] . . . Tense, thrilling and a true page-turner

    Image magazine
  • Fletcher’s prose is dreamily sensual, full of the light and heat of an English summer, an eerie contrast to the shadows of the oncoming First World War . . . House Of Glass is a beautifully written, gloriously Gothic story of gardens, ghosts and old, uneasy grudges

    Sunday Express

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