The Glass Woman is a tense gothic thriller that follows Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. The novel takes place in Iceland, on a land saturated with the spirit of the ancient sagas, during the witch hunt. The year is 1686. Rose is the daughter of a bishop who taught her to read and write: she can read the Bible and psalms, but at night, like her mother, she whispers to the pagan gods. The family is poor, but happy until the father dies. Then, in order not to let the mother simply die from cold and hunger in the coming fierce winter, the girl gets married and leaves far from her native nest. Her husband Yone is harsh and unsociable, he is almost never at home. Rose must be meek and obedient, and she must not leave the house and make friends in the village. Is it because the locals know what happened to Yone’s former wife? The most ominous rumors circulate around her death. Rose remains in complete isolation and despair, the shadows of an empty house thicken around her, and strange sounds are heard from the locked attic, where she is strictly forbidden to go …
© CAROLINE LEA
© Anna Gaidenko, translation, 2021
© LLC «Publishing House Phantom Press», design, edition, 2021
Recorded by Audio Publishing House VIMBO
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Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail Litvakov
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