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The Glass House: The spellbinding Richard and Judy pick and Sunday Times bestseller Paperback – December 10, 2020

by Eve Chase (Author)
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The spellbinding SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK about old family secrets.

'A captivating mystery: beautifully written, with a rich sense of place, a cast of memorable characters, and lots of deep, dark secrets' Kate Morton, bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter

'Absolutely her best yet' Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

'A wonderful, romantic, compelling mystery. Eve Chase has something of the poet in her: her descriptions of a remote manor house nestling in an ancient forest are worth reading for themselves, but the plotline of The Glass House is utterly absorbing in its own right. We loved it' Richard and Judy Book Club

'The Glass House is not really about a murder, or a creepy house, but about families - the ones we're born into, the ones we make and especially the ones we flee' New York Times
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The truth can shatter everything . . .

When the Harrington family discovers an abandoned baby deep in the woods, they decide to keep her a secret and raise her as their own.

But within days a body is found in the grounds of their house and their perfect new family implodes.

Years later, Sylvie, seeking answers to nagging questions about her life, is drawn into the wild beautiful woods where nothing is quite what it seems.

Will she unearth the truth?

And dare she reveal it?

**THE BIRDCAGE, the new novel by Eve Chase, is available for pre-order now!**
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'I adored this beautifully-written, riveting mystery' Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn't Call

'So beautifully and insightfully written, with characters I grew to love. A compelling, moving story that kept me turning the pages right to the very last' Katherine Webb, author of The Legacy

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin (December 10, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1405940964
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1405940962
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.94 x 7.8 inches
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Eve Chase is an internationally bestselling British novelist who writes rich, layered and suspenseful novels, thick with secrets, unforgettable characters and settings. Her latest novel, The Midnight Hour - 'Her best yet...I loved every word' - Claire Douglas - publishes June '24, in the UK. Other novels include, The Birdcage, The Glass House (The Daughters of Foxcote Manor, US) a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde (The Wildling Sisters, US) which was longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award, and Black Rabbit Hall, winner of Paris' Saint-Maur en Poche prize for Best Foreign Fiction. She works in the Writer's Shed at the bottom of her garden, usually with Harry, her golden retriever.

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Alma Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars I read around 35 books a year. And this is bar none the best one I have read in the last 3 years!
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2023
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Beautiful story line, Rich filled out characters. This book has the rhythm of poetry throughout. In parts I had to pause and just take in the beauty of the words. That is a rare thing in today's novels.
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Steph Warren
4.0 out of 5 stars A decades-spanning story about women’s secrets and complicity, motherhood and mothering
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2020
*I received a free ARC of this book, with thanks to the author, Penguin UK – Michael Joseph and NetGalley. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*

The Glass House is a decades-spanning story about women’s secrets and complicity; about motherhood and mothering, and the distinction between the two.

The story is told mainly in two threads: Rita, nanny to a troubled family in 1971, and Sylvie, dealing with her marriage breakup and the subsequent estrangement from her daughter in the present day (with some brief glimpses into other character’s perspectives, such as teenage Hera in 1971).

It is clear from the outset that the two disparate threads will converge at some point, but how and when is a complete mystery. Which mirrors the many other mysteries in the story, such as what happened to Jeannie’s baby; why Hera and Teddy are so unsettled; why Rita avoids romantic entanglements; and where did the baby in the woods come from. And, of course, whose is the dead body that appeared days later, and who killed them?

The story starts a little slowly, but the reader is soon drawn in to the rich inner world of the characters – that heavy summer oppression of secrets and lies – and the plot twists and turns, with clever foreshadowing and fateful coincidences, until finally the story comes together in a satisfyingly dramatic, and yet hopeful finale. But the real focus here is the characters. Party to their intimate thoughts and feelings, I found myself totally immersed in what really happened at Foxcote Manor, and whether Rita, Jeannie, Hera, Teddy, Robbie, Sylvie and Annie can all find some form of happiness from the tangled mess woven around them.

This is a story of family and secrets, the lengths we would be willing to go to for those we love and what it means to be a mother. And how those last two might be inextricably linked.

A glass conservatory shrunk to finger-doll size, Rita’s terrarium is the only possession she cares about. The only thing she owns that has no practical purpose. On the night of the fire, after tugging Jeannie and the children down the smoky stairs in the dark, she’d tried to return for it, but the blazing heat beat her back. She rescued it the day she went to get the baby’s things. It was like reuniting with an old friend, a dear silent companion. Housing the most perfect mossy rock and among other plants, a maidenhair fern she’s named Ethel and another she’s grown from a tiny black spore (Dot), the terrarium is the one constant between her unlikely nanny’s life, and Life Before.

– Eve Chase, The Glass House

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Barb
5.0 out of 5 stars Into the Woods
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2020
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Eve Chase is one of my favorite writers and Stephen Sondheim is one of my favorite composers. What do they have in common? Both believe in the mystic power and mythology of a journey through the woods. Toss in the mystery of a Daphne du Maurier suspense novel and you have the alchemy of The Glass House. This novel take the reader on two journeys, two time spans, one the present, the other in 1971. Slowly and deliciously the truth unveils itself at the old house and the woods surrounding it. Mothers and babies. Life and death. Responsibility and dereliction. Lies and truth. This is a powerful read that lingers like the scents and cracklings of the forest in your mind.
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OlgaNM
5.0 out of 5 stars A totally immersing and wonderful reading experience
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2020
Thanks to Penguin UK - Michael Joseph and NetGalley for providing me an ARC copy of this book that I freely chose to review. This is the first time I’ve read one of Eve Chase’s novels, and I’m sure it won’t be the last one as I found it a totally immersing and wonderful experience.
The plot has something of the fairy tale (or of several fairy tales), as this is a dual-timeline story where we read about some events that took place in the early 1970s —although that part of the action (in fact, the whole book) has something timeless about it— and then others that are taking place in the present. The story is told from three different points of view, those of Rita (told in a deep third person, as readers are privy to her feelings and thoughts), a very tall nanny (they call her ‘Big Rita’) with a tragic past; Hera, one of her charges, an intelligent and troubled child (almost a teen), who is more aware of what is truly going on around her than the adults realise; and Sylvia, a recently separated woman, mother of an eighteen-year-old girl, Annie, and trying to get used to an independent lifestyle again. Both, Hera and Sylvia, tell the story in the first person, and the chapters alternate between the three narrators and the two timelines. Rita and Hera’s narratives start in the 1970s and are intrinsically linked, telling the story of the Harrington family and of a summer holiday in the family home in the Forest of Dean, intended as a therapeutic break for the mother of the family, which turns up to be anything but. Most readers will imagine that Sylvia’s story, set in the present, must be related to that of the other two women, but it is not immediately evident how. There are secrets, mysteries, adultery, murders, lost and found babies, romance, tragedy, accidents, terraria (or terrariums, like the lovely one in the cover of the book), cruelty, fire… The book is classed under Gothic fiction (and in many ways it has many of the elements we’d expect from a Victorian Gothic novel, or a fairy tale, as I said), and also as a domestic thriller, and yes, it also fits in that category, but with a lot more symbolism than is usual in that genre, a house in the forest rather than a suburban or a city home, and some characters that are larger than life.
Loss, grief, identity (how we define ourselves and how we are marked by family tradition and the stories we are told growing up), the relationship between mothers and daughters, and what makes a family a family are among the themes running through the novel, as are memory and the different ways people try to cope with trauma and painful past events.
I’ve mentioned the characters in passing, and although some of them might sound familiar when we start reading about them (Rita, the shy woman, too tall and scarred to be considered attractive, who seeks refuge in other people’s family; Hera, the young girl growing in a wealthy family with a mother who has mental health problems and a largely absent father; and Sylvia, a woman in her forties suddenly confronted with having to truly become an adult when both, her mother and her daughter need her), there is more to them than meets the eye, and they all grow and evolve during the novel, having to confront some painful truths in the process. I liked Rita and Sylvia from the beginning, even though I don’t have much in common with either of them, and felt sorry for Hera. Although the events and the story require a degree of suspension of disbelief greater than in other novels, the characters, their emotions, and their reactions are understandable and feel real within the remit of the story, and it would be difficult to read it and not feel for them.
I loved the style that offers a good mix of descriptive writing (especially vivid when dealing with the setting of the story, the forest, Devon, and the terrarium) and more symbolic and lyrical writing when dealing with the emotions and the state of mind of the characters. At times, we can almost physically share in their experiences, hear the noises in the woods, or smell the sea breeze. This is not a rushed story, and although the action and the plot move along at a reasonable pace, there is enough time to stop to contemplate and marvel at a fern, the feel of a baby’s skin, or the music from a guitar. This is not a frantic thriller but a rather precious story, and it won’t suit people looking for constant action and a fast pace. I’ve read some reviews where readers complained about feeling confused by the dual time lines and the different narrators, although I didn’t find it confusing as each chapter is clearly marked and labelled (both with mention of the time and the character whose point of view we are reading). I recommend anybody thinking about reading the book to check a sample first, to see if it is a good fit for their taste.
The ending… I’m going to avoid spoilers, as usual, but I liked the way everything comes together and fits in. Did I work out what was going on? Some of the revelations happen quite early, but some of the details don’t come to light until much later, and the author is masterful in the way she drops clues that we might miss and obscures/hides information until the right moment. I guessed some of the points, others I only realised quite close to the actual ending, but, in any case, I loved how it all came together, like in a fairy tale, only even better.
This is a novel for readers who don’t mind letting their imagination fly and who are not looking for a totally realistic novel based on fact. With wonderful characters, magnificent settings, many elements that will make readers think of fairy tales, and a Gothic feel, this is a great novel, and an author whose work I look forward to reading again in the near future.
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Joanne S. Hall
1.0 out of 5 stars If you read The Daughters of Foxcote Manner by Eve Chase you have already read this book!
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2022
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I was so disappointed to realize I paid for a book I had already read. In October,2020, I read The Daughters of Foxcote Manor by Eve Chase . The Glass House by Eve Chase is the exact same book, just retitled and rebranded.
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Laraine
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read, at times confusing.
Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2023
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4 stars. This was the first book by Chase that I'd read and it was a Richard and Judy Book Club (UK) Selection for Winter 2020, which brought it to my attention. The book is also known as "The Daughters of Foxcroft Manor". This book had multiple narrators all telling the story from different timelines and perspectives. I found this somewhat confusing to keep track of. Rita is a nanny to a wealthy family. She's very tall and the children call her "Big Rita" and she loves them dearly. The Mother, Jeannie, is grieving the death of her newborn daughter and the Father, Walter, is a distant and absent man. He sends the family and the nanny to their country place, Foxcroft Manor, to recover from the loss and to keep Jeanie away from his friend, Don, who is too close to Jeanie. While they are there, the daughter Hera discovers a newborn baby girl left near the house. The arrival of the infant, who they name Baby Forest, brings Jeannie back to life and the family decides they are going to keep her. Rita wants to call the authorities but she is over ruled. Rita takes care of the baby and the baby watches her and loves her. They all live in this little bubble in the woods away from reality until a body is found in the woods and the outside world, Police and Child welfare authorities, come to them. The story is an interesting one although I did find the flipping back and forth between narrators and time periods to be quite confusing. It was a good read all in all.
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Mairi Chong
5.0 out of 5 stars Rich prose. Brilliant family mystery
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2022
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When the Harrington family discover an abandoned baby in the forest that surrounds their house, they insanely decide to keep her but when a dead body is found in the grounds, they can no longer hide the truth.
This book is written from three different character points of view over two timelines and is at first a little confusing to follow. The prose is peppered with similes and metaphors that feel a touch forced at times and when I first began reading, I thought it was going to get tiresome… However, I am so glad I stuck with this. Eve Chase has an undeniable talent at a family saga and the rich narrative rips along at a rapid pace with beautiful evocative descriptions and emotive analogies. Admittedly, the conclusion is a bit too perfect for my cynical self but who doesn’t want a happy ending? If you’re after a heart-warming mystery, this one’s for you. I have already bought another of Chase’s books.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Confusing
Reviewed in Germany on February 15, 2022
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Can't get into this at all. Confusingly written, story does not flow in my opinion. Just irritating me so am now abandoning ship. My apologies to the author because I respect and appreciate authors but this is just not for me.
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Silvia di biase
5.0 out of 5 stars Bellissimo
Reviewed in Italy on February 10, 2022
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Lo sto leggendo in inglese perché in italiano non è stato pubblicato. Amo molto lo stile dell'autrice che conoscevo già.
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Sara A
5.0 out of 5 stars Otra joya literaria de Eve Chase
Reviewed in Spain on May 18, 2021
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Ya había leído 2 libros más de esta autora, y me encantaron. Este es igualmente maravilloso, te tiene atrapada en la lectura y conectas con los personajes de una manera magnífica. Totalmente recomendable para fans de los libros de Kate Morton, con un toque algo oscuro. Por cierto la portada de la edición en tapa dura es preciosa.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Otra joya literaria de Eve Chase
Reviewed in Spain on May 18, 2021
Ya había leído 2 libros más de esta autora, y me encantaron. Este es igualmente maravilloso, te tiene atrapada en la lectura y conectas con los personajes de una manera magnífica. Totalmente recomendable para fans de los libros de Kate Morton, con un toque algo oscuro. Por cierto la portada de la edición en tapa dura es preciosa.
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