"If you marry into glass you enter a closed world" So Pierre Labbe warned his daughter in 1747. But tall, blonde Magdaleine was not daunted. To her the tight traditions of the glass-blowers made a world she could rule over – and rule she did.

          But for her children that world would be different.

          Daphne du Maurier’s warm, human saga of a family of craftsmen in eighteenth-century France – with the violence and terror of the Revolution as a clamouring background against which their loves and their hopes are played out.