The Glass of Time: The Secret Life of Miss Esperanza Gorst (Hardcover) by Michael Cox

from freddlerabbit

This sequel to "The Meaning of Night" could certainly stand on its own - there is a central animating mystery that should intrigue those who haven't read Cox's first book. Since I am not one of those people, initially, I was unsure whether this book would be as engaging - the signals were clear, ...

from flashflood42

I listened to this book on audio although I listened more than a year after I was spell-bound by The Meaning of Night, a Wilkie Collins/Dickens 21c type of book. Nothing is as good as Wilkie Collins' Moonstone, Woman in White, or Man and Wife but for all who like these, try the two Cox novels. Yo...

from readerbynight

A history of mystery and secrets, "The Glass of Time" is fluid and consistently kept in its own time period of the 19th century. It is also a tragic love story with catastrophic reverberations constantly rippling outward. A story in 5 Acts, it unfolds seamlessly through the voice of Esperanza Ali...

from robbieg_422

Accompany Esperanza Gorst as she poses as a lady's maid in Victorian England. Orphaned Miss Gorst is sent by her Guardian to report on certain goings-on at Evenwood, the estate of widowed Lady Tansor. The reason for Esperanza's deception is unknown even to herself, but her devotion to her guardia...

from freddlerabbit

This sequel to "The Meaning of Night" could certainly stand on its own - there is a central animating mystery that should intrigue those who haven't read Cox's first book. Since I am not one of those people, initially, I was unsure whether this book would be as engaging - the signals were clear, ...